| The Shaman |
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Q'eros Tribes area, Andes, Peru - A shaman performing the sacred ceremony with coca leaves
Nikon F100, Nikkor 70-200mm VR, 1/500"@f2.8, Ektachrome E100 GX
The Q'eros are the last of the Incas, a tribe of near 1500 who sought refuge in a wide area of the mist-shrouded mountains of Peru near Paucartambo, between 14,000 and 22,000 feet elevation, in order to escape the conquering conquistadors. They live in complete harmony and reciprocal exchange with all of nature, in a near-constant state of reverence for creation itself. They speak directly to the mountains the rivers and the sun.
For 500 years the Q'ero elders have preserved a sacred prophecy of a great change, or 'pacachuti', in which the world be turned right-side-up, harmony and order would be restored, and chaos and disorder ended. Their shamans spend hours engaged in mystical activities, the most important of which is the so-called 'pago'. It is a long and complicated ceremony dedicated to the “Pachamama” (Mother Earth), in which the coca leaves hold the main part. The Q'eros speak only Quechua, the language of the Incas, and they have lived in their villages high in the Andes, in virtual solitude from the world, until their 'discovering' in 1949 by the anthropologist Oscar Nunez del Prado |
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Q'eros, Andes, Peru, Incas, shamans, coca, ceremonies, religions |
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28.03.2006 11:22 |
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Q\'eros Andes Peru Incas shamans coca ceremonies religions |
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