ABSTRACT
Mr. Charles Slater, a Cuna who had served as a sailor on English-speaking ships, wrote down the origin of the world in the late 1920s in English. The genipa plant Origin History introduces us to an important variety of magic, one to put alongside James George Frazer's double-layered sympathetic magic of Similarity and Contact. This seems to be quite a different sense of spiritual geography than the levels, yet in its way it is even stranger because the sites exist bewilderingly as both fantastic and actual. And unlike the levels-version of mimesis and alterity, maps can be drawn and do in fact exist of these spirit-locations and their geography. It is true that just as taboo exists in order to be broken, so transgression fortifies the taboo. Emerging from the transgression of the taboo, their very mastery of fidelity is the sign of their infidelity.
