I find it fascinating to try and reason through why Ama killed the panther and why she did not produce the body when she so easily could have produced it and lessened her judgment. For me, I think it was the tribe mentality; to bring back a beast who symbolized the essence of their tribe and was held in such reverence, and yet was dying of sickness, would have weakened the resolve of an already disappearing people.
I think that Ama offered herself as a scapegoat so that the people of the Taiga tribe would not have to face the decay around them. Also - as the judgment upon Abraham earlier in the novel shows - with the expression of the power held by the tribal leaders, many young people started following the ways again. Perhaps Ama reasoned that if she allowed herself to be judged, remaining silent so as to not tell them about the panther's true condition, that this would give the tribe the chance to grow and flourish once more due to their expression of power.
How is the Panther itself a symbol of the taiga tribe?
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