Half Christian, half savage
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Era uma cena ao mesmo tempo simples e majestosa a que apresentava essa prece meio cristã, meio selvagem; em todos aqueles rostos, iluminados pelos raios do ocaso, respirava um santo respeito.
It was a scene at once simple and majestic that this prayer presented — half Christian, half savage; on all those faces, lit by the rays of the sunset, breathed a holy reverence.
It was a scene at once simple and majestic that this prayer presented — half Christian, half savage; on all those faces, lit by the rays of the sunset, breathed a holy reverence.
'Half Christian, half savage' is the novel's whole ambition in a phrase: a new, mixed faith of the New World, where the Catholic Angelus and the wild forest kneel together. This is Alencar's founding myth of Brazil.
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