Prophecies of the Q'ero Inca Shamans
The light of idealism gleamed in his eyes as Dr. Alberto Villoldo
described how an earthquake in 1949 underneath a monastery near
Cuzco, Peru, had rent the ground asunder, exposing an ancient Incan
temple of gold. This fulfilled a sign that the prophecies of Mosoq,
the"time to come," were now to be shared with the modern world.
Dr. Villoldo, a psychologist and medicinal anthropologist, has lived
among and trained with the Q'ero shamans and has played a key role in
bringing their ritual and prophecy to the awareness of the modern
world. The Q'ero are the last of the Incas—a tribe of 600 who
sought refuge at altitudes above 14,000 feet in order to escape the
conquering conquistadors. For 500 years the Q'ero elders have
preserved a sacred prophecy of a great change, or"pachacuti," in
which the world would be turned right-side-up, harmony and order
would be restored, and chaos and disorder ended.
The Q'ero had lived in their villages high in the Andes in virtual
solitude from the world until their"discovery"In 1949. In that
year, Oscar Nu—ez del Prado, an anthropologist, was at a festival in
Paucartambo, in southern Peru, when he met two Indians speaking
fluent Quecha, the language of the Incas. The first Western
expedition to the Q'ero villages then occurred in 1955.
Four years later, at the annual Feast of The Return of the Pleiades
taking place in the Andes, the gathering of 70,000 pilgrims from
South America were awed, and the crowd parted to let the Q'ero,
unannounced and wearing the Incan emblem of the sun, make their way
forward to the mountain top to make known that the time of the
prophecies was at hand. They were welcomed by the assembly and were
told," We've been waiting for you for 500 years.”Recently, Q'ero
elders journeyed to North America in fulfillment of their prophecies.
In November 1996, a small group of Q'ero, including the tribal leader
and the head shaman, visited several cities in the US, including New
York, where they performed a private ceremony at the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine. The shamanic ritual had not been performed for 500
years. But in the very home of those who symbolized the former
conquerors of their Incan ancestors they shared their ritual and
knowledge, not only with interested Westerners who were learning
their ways, but also with the Dean of the great cathedral, thereby
symbolically and spiritually linking the two continents of North and
South America.
According to ancient prophecy, this is the time of the great
gathering called the"mastay"And reintegration of the peoples of the
four directions. The Q'ero are releasing their teachings to the West,
in preparation for the day the Eagle of the North and the Condor of
the South (the Americas) fly together again.
They believe that"munay,"
love and compassion,
will be the guiding force of this great
gathering of the peoples.
The new caretakers of the Earth will come from the West, and those
that have made the greatest impact on Mother Earth now have the moral
responsibility to remake their relationship with Her, after remaking
themselves," said Don Antonio Morales, a master Q'ero shaman. The
prophecy holds that,
- North America will supply the physical strength, or body;
- Europe will supply the mental aspect, or head;
- and the heart will be supplied by South America.
When the Spanish conquered the Incas 500 years ago, the last
pachacuti, or great change, occurred. The Q'ero have been waiting
ever since for the next pachacuti, when order would emerge out of
chaos. For the past five centuries they preserved their sacred
knowledge, and finally, in recent years, the signs were fulfilled
that the great time of change was at hand:
- the high mountain lagoons have dried,
- the condor is nearly extinct
- and the discovery of the Golden Temple has occurred, following the
earthquake in 1949 which represented the wrath of the sun.
The prophecies are optimistic. They refer to the end of time as we
know it—the death of a way of thinking and a way of being, the end
of a way of relating to nature and to the earth.
In the coming years, the Incas expect us to emerge into a golden age,
a golden millennium of peace. The prophecies also speak of tumultuous
changes happening in the earth, and in our psyche, redefining our
relationships and spirituality. The next pachacuti, or great change,
has already begun, and it promises the emergence of a new human after
this period of turmoil. The chaos and upheaval characteristic of this
period will last another four years, according to the Q'ero.
The paradigm of European civilization will continue to collapse, and
the way of the Earth people will return. Even more importantly, the
shamanic elders speak about a tear in the fabric of time itself. This
presents an opportunity for us to describe ourselves not as who we
have been in the past but as who we are becoming.
Pachacuti also refers to a great Incan leader who lived in the late
1300s. He is said to have built Machu Picchu and was the architect of
an empire the size of the US. For the Incas, Pachacuti is a spiritual
prototype—a Master, a luminous one who stepped outside of time. He
was a messiah, but not in the Christian sense of the only son of God,
beyond the reach of humanity. Rather he is viewed as a symbol and
promise of who we all might become. He embodies the essence of the
prophecies of the pachacuti, as Pacha means"earth"or"time," and
cuti means"to set things right.”His name also means"transformer of
the earth.”
The prophecies of the pachacuti are known throughout the Andes. There
are those who believe the prophecies refer to the return of the
leader Pachacuti to defeat those who took the Incas' land. But
according to Dr. Villoldo, the return of Pachacuti is taking place on
the collective level.”it's not the return of a single individual who
embodies what we're becoming, but a process of emergence available to
all peoples.”
The Q'ero have served as the caretakers of the rites and prophecies
of their Inca ancestors. The prophecies are of no use unless one has
the keys, the rites of passage. The Star Rites, or"Mosoq Karpay"
(The Rites of the Time to Come), are crucial to the practical growth
described in the prophecies. Following the"despachos" (ritualistic
offerings of mesa, or medicine bundles) at the ceremony in New York
City, the shamans administered the Mosoq Karpay to the individuals
present, transmitting the energies originating with the ancestors of
their lineage. The transmission of the Mosoq Karpay is the ceremony
representing the end of one's relationship to time. It is a process
of the heart.
This process of Becoming is considered more important than the
prophecies themselves. The Karpay (rites) plant the seed of
knowledge, the seed of Pachacuti, in the luminous body of the
recipient. It is up to each person to water and tend the seed so that
it can grow and blossom. The rites are a transmission of potential;
one must then make oneself available to destiny. The Karpays connect
the person to an ancient lineage of knowledge and power that cannot
be accessed by the individual. It can only be summoned by a tribe.
Ultimately, this power can provide the impetus for one to leap into
the body of an Inca, a Luminous One. That person is connected
directly to the stars, the Incan Sun of cosmology. The Q'ero believe
that the doorways between the worlds are opening again. Holes in time
that we can step through and beyond, where we can explore our human
capabilities. Regaining our luminous nature is a possibility today
for all who dare to take the leap.
The Andean shamans say,
"Follow your own footsteps.
Learn from the rivers,
the trees and the rocks.
Honor the Christ,
the Buddha,
your brothers and sisters.
Honor the Earth Mother and the Great Spirit.
Honor yourself and all of creation.”
"Look with the eyes of your soul and engage the essential,"
is the teaching of the Q'ero.
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