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Lorenzo Ayallapan Cayuleo, 81 also known as "El hombre Pájaro", Birdman. Lorenzo claims to speak and understand 60 different bird languages. In the Mapuche world he is acknowledged as a sage and guardian of his people's ancestral culture. Seen here at his favourite spots where four rivers meet the Pacific Ocean in the bay of Pto. Saavedra in Araucanía. He claims it to be a place of great energy which makes it easy to listen to " the four sounds of life": the earth, sea, wind and the sound of trees.