Angrita My Friend

Pirkko Korhonen

...Angrita came into my life a long time ago, in another time and place. Angrita's existence in my life, inside me, gradually turned into a story. At first, just small thoughts, images, gradually it became a small story. My Name is Angrita - the book you can read in the image below, tells the mythical birth of Angrita. The story is set in archaic times, in the jungle, in a tribal temple village, where people live in the midst of dreams, dangers and the supernatural forces of nature. Angrita is an orphaned Dreamer, a lover of nature and animals. But her uniqueness makes her lonely. She searches for her royal parents in a temple tomb. Angrita goes there when she feels sad with herself. Sometimes she meets her mother there and is happy for a little while. Angrita's friends include Rosa, Yamal, sister Guamayala, Pakal, the Great Ape, the Jaguar and the Old Man, who enters her life with the new time. Angrita grows up over the course of the stories, but the loneliness and feeling of being abandoned never goes away.