Las Huaringas
Since pre-Hispanic times, the
group of lagoons in Piura Known as Las Huaringas (sacred lagoons in quechua)
have been a site of pilgrimage for the people of the región and
for travelers who come this far from the coast, highlands and junglas,
and even from Europe, USA, China and Japane, in search of health prosperity
and a prospective remedy for their illness or a truer sense of their lives.
It´s very possible that this place was a kind of Mecca for Andean
man furing pre-Columbian times. We can still find the remains of his presence
in the archaeological ruins in this area know by the locals as the “ancient
city” of Chulucanitas.
The outskirts of the lagoons are uninhabited and there are no vestiges
of any civilization, by which we conclude that these ruins were probably
part of ceremonial temples
The Journey
The Star is from the small
remote town of Warwar, near Huacabamba. It is necessary to travel between
three and eight hour to get to the lagoons.
The lagoon that one will finally get to is selected by the shaman, according
the disease to be treated. A climb that must be done during the day in
order to return before the dark, due to the low temperatures at night.
The way is solitary and impressive. The trip can only be done on foot
or horseback due to the rough terrain of the region. During the journey,
the traveler goes through a sequence of ecological environments containing
a great variety of wild botanical species.
The appearance of enormous rocks covered by green and ochre moss warns
the traveler of the proximity of the sacred area.
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The Lagoons
The impressive lagoons, the great pastures of ichu grass that surround
them, the overwhelming solitude of the puna or highlands, and the
presence of enormous rocks take the traveler on journey into the past.
In this landscape, the ritual between man and shaman will take place.
They will pa to assuage the power of the huacas, or energy-entities,
in the ceremony of flourishing or change of luck.
A very important and beautiful lagoon is Rey Inca, since in its depths
there is a sculpted sandbar, where according to legend, the Inca and
his court bathed to recover mental equilibrium and health.
Each lagoon has spirits or reina, which are normally treated as being
feminine in gender. The spirit of the lagoon is the spouse of the
highest hill that accompanies it, whose masculine traits endow him
with a number of powers for being a Huaca.
Table
All through his life, the shaman collects and prepares his “objects
of power” .This objects are handled from a central location,
which is the mesa or the complete set of objects of power, which allow
all the participants in the ceremony to become connected to the shaman,
and through him and by the ingestion of a sacred drink also become
connected with the divine. The table is set in a particular way, in
which good and evil are balanced equally. The right side of the table,
which corresponds to the Good, is also called “the side of temptation”
because its qualities or negatives forces can capture souls or energy
from the participants of the ceremony. The shaman submerges and emerges
alternately from the two sides until just before daybreak.
This warrior of the night will carry his weapons, which are his voice
and his song, a chungana, or rattle, which will provide the rhythm
that he will guide through the path of the spirits.
Sacred Crystals
Quartz crystal is the best known rock crystal
due to its shine and transparency. It was considered of great power
inside the Incan culture. This is the reason why it was elected in
the construction of the citadel of Machu Picchu and used throughout
the site.
The isocronic vibrations of the natural crystals when placed over
key points of the body interfere positively with the vibrations of
the three subtle bodies that surround the aura:
the
ethereal or energetic body
the
astral or emotional body
the
mental body
The use of the rock crystal within the Incan society dates back thousands
of years, pieces of this crystal have been discovered dating from
12,000 years of antiquity.
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Maracas: At elevating to this acoustic frequency, you will better the alignment of your cerebral waves with the beating of the earth. Reading of Coca Leaves Inside the ancient customs, coca leaves
have formed part of the same life as the Incas giving them a sacred
character. Through reading them, the Incas were able to see into
the future, and using them to give offerings to the earth or to
Mother Nature in order to guide their people through harvests
and battles. Presently this reading in now in the hands of Andean
specialists who under the invocation of their guardian gods o
APUS have predicted the future for many years. |
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