The Inka Prophecy of the End of Time (an excerpt follows)
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
I asked don Humberto to elaborate, to tell me what these signs and these processes were. "Our Prophecy is written in stone," he said. "We have no written language, like you do. We have only our weavings and our stones. If you understand Machu Picchu, and the stones at that ancient city," he went on, "you understand Cuzco. Machu Picchu is a miniature of Cuzco. If you understand Cuzco, you understand the Inka Empire." At that point he paused, and I seized the opportunity to lean against a large boulder to catch my breath. Don Mariano squatted down next to me an opened his mesa, the collection power objects that every shaman carries. "If you understand the mesa," he said as he carefully opened up his medicine bundle to reveal the stones inside it, "you understand Machu Picchu and the Prophecy."
Machu Picchu was built by Pachacutek, the ninth Inka. His name means the 'transformer of the Earth.' He was the architect of cities in the clouds. His name and his person embody the essence of the Prophecy. The word Pacha in the language of the Inka means Earth, or Time. Kuti means to turn upside down, or to set things right. The Prophecy of the return of Pachacutek, the man-god, herald the end of time. Pachakuti, on the other hand, refers to a process. The last Pachakuti happened with the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors. Throughout the Americas, the world of the Indian was turned upside down. Kings and chiefs were subjugated and turned into slaves, and barbarians became rulers. Medicine people were tortured in the mines and fields. Order in the Americas was replaced with chaos. And with the coming of the European religion, the children of the earth were cast out of the Garden.
The next Pachakuti has already begun, and the upheaval and chaos characteristic of this period will last until the year 2012. At that time the world will be turned right side up again. The pillars of European civilization will collapse, and the ways of the Earth Peoples will return. The Conquistador will perish by his own hand and his own blade. For the Inka this next Pachakuti holds the possibility of chaos and the end of the world as we know it. But it also promises the emergence of a new kind of human at the end of this period of turmoil.
Like the Hopi, the Inka were given signs that would announce the coming of the Pachakuti. These signs included the drying of the high mountain lagoons, the near extinction of the condor, and the wrath of our father the sun (the Q'ero live at 17,000 feet at the edge of the tear in the ozone layer.) Like the Hopi, who were told about the period of Koyanasquatsi, or ensuing chaos, the Inka were foretold about the upheaval coming to the planet. It is these signs that led them to first come down from their mountaintops to reveal the rites of passage.
Shamanism is not a religion, yet it is the basis of all religions. The Andean shamans, the pacos, explain that they have no Christ, no Buddha, and no Moses that says, "Follow my footsteps." The pacos say "Follow your own footsteps. Learn from the rivers, the trees and the rocks. Honor the Christ, the Buddha, and your brothers and sisters. Honor the Pachamama (the Earth) and the Great Spirit. Honor yourself and all of creation." None- the less, the theme of stepping beyond time that the Inka speak of can be found in every religious tradition. In Judaism, the Messiah will come at the end of time. When Christ came, time ended and a new time began (BC and AD.) Read More
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Lima
Nazca
Cusco
bird sanctuaries
Incas
Sacred Valley
Train
Boulder
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