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\"I can see enemies coming as well as evil spirits. If they come, I cut the ladder.\" His name is Markus. He climbs the ladder every day to the top of his tree house in order to protect himself from being attacked by animals, buzzing insects, floods and also fleeing from the evil. The house feels like a refuge.
Markus is the head of a Korowai clan in (West) Papua and has adopted to the jungle\\\\\\\'s hostile environment. Polyphonic chants always accompany him on his ascents. \\\\\\\"If I don\\\\\\\'t sing, I don\\\\\\\'t have any strength. Singing gives me courage and connects me to my ancestors.\\\\\\\" Korowai means, \\\\\\\"he who has strong legs\\\\\\\". The staircase to the tree house is built by Markus from trunks and carved brunches - it is concrete as wobbeling, whenever he runs up the ladder in the height. \\\\\\\"I can\\\\\\\'t measure. I was told about meters, but I don\\\\\\\'t know what they are. I\\\\\\\'d say 30 times my size. I built the height of the tree house instinctively.\\\\\\\" According to Korowai tradition, when a man dies, the body is placed in the tree house. No one will return to that place and it will be devoured by the jungle.
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