A temple of green
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Apezar de ser pouco mais de duas horas, uma tenue claridade reinava nessas profundas e sombrias abobadas de verdura: a luz, coando entre a espessa folhagem se decompunha inteiramente; nem uma restea de sol penetrava nesse templo da creação, ao qual servião de columnas os troncos seculares dos acaris e dos araribás.
Though it was little past two o'clock, only a faint light reigned under those deep, shadowy vaults of green: the daylight, filtering through the thick foliage, was wholly broken up; not a single ray of sun pierced that temple of creation, whose columns were the age-old trunks of the acari and araribá trees.
Though it was little past two o'clock, only a faint light reigned under those deep, shadowy vaults of green: the daylight, filtering through the thick foliage, was wholly broken up; not a single ray of sun pierced that temple of creation, whose columns were the age-old trunks of the acari and araribá trees.
Alencar's forest is a cathedral — vaults, columns, a hushed dimness ‘of creation.' The acari and araribá are Brazilian hardwoods; naming them roots the sacred image in a real, native forest. This is the Indianist landscape the novel is famous for, entered just as the human tension goes quiet.
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