Hatun Karpay Initiation in Peru
LINKS 2
• FOLK MUSIC RADIO IN LIMA, PERU
Scroll down to the article title. This is a great article by Don Moore about the history of how one man was able to get the traditional Andean folk music played on a radio station. Now this music is very popular all over Peru, even in the larger cities. Lots of other articles and links to radio, travel, photos and other information about Peru.
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RADIO PERU
• PERUVIAN RADIO STATIONS
This site lists all of Peru's radio stations and their websites. A great site, if you can read Spanish. I didn't see an English version.
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TRADITIONAL ANDEAN MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA
• OLLANTAY: BOLIVIAN MUSIC IN VIRGINIA
• MUSIC OF THE ANDES IN EUROPE
Can't travel to the Andes? Well, perhaps you can travel to these other places instead. Andean music is alive and well in other parts of the world. The second website has many links to other Andean music groups in Europe, as well as links to music in AU, Wav, MP3 and RA formats.
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For more about Andean music and links to music websites, go to Page 16.
• THE PATH OF THE HEART
The Path of the Heart has programs that feed hungry children, provide safe, comfortable homes to orphans and help educate exceptionally bright and gifted youngsters. The Path of the Heart is a 501Š(3) charitable non-profit organization where 100% of your tax-deductible donation goes directly to those in need. Path of the Heart supports 4 orphanages, 19 children in universities and trade schools plus 3 Food-lines that feed 750+ street people a healthy, balanced meal every day.
"We are seeking donations in any amount, large or small. We leave for Olantaytambo, Peru, May 15, 2003, and we would like to have the brand new Restaurant of the Universal Heart operating fully by May 20th. We need funds for food, stoves and ovens, pots and pans, cooking utensils, tables and benches, bowls, platters, plates and glasses, cutlery, sinks, towels, etc, etc. And, for the sake of hygiene, a floor that is easy to keep clean."
Washington, formerly an impoverished boy of Ollantaytambo, who grew up determined to help the other children of his area, estimates the restaurant will be feeding over 200 people two healthy meals a day within the first few days.
Please send your tax-deductible donation to:
The Path of the Heart
2306 Illion St
San Diego, CA 92110-2343.
Phones: 619-275-1999 or
1-800-344-2750
Email: TheHealingHaven@aol.com
To discover more about Dr. Sharon Forrest and the great work she is doing, please go to http://www.healingnow.com. (Please click on the Path of the Heart banner at the bottom of the page.)
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• CHANDLER SKY FOUNDATION - Casa de Milagros Children's Community
The Chandler Sky Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit organization based in Cuzco, Peru. Supported by the Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Organization (SEE), this is a pilot, cooperative program for homeless children of Cuzco. Their "goal is to create a self sufficient, healing home that encourages the children in development and independence...to create a unique environment that will encourage the children's' growth by incorporating programs of permaculture, health, education, spiritual development, cultural and performing arts, and social and vocational skills." Do visit their website. Perhaps you'll feel moved to support their efforts.
• HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
This wonderful non-profit organization devotes its energies to supplying free animals to impoverished families throughout the world. For our purposes here, they have a llama project in Andean Bolivia. This organization supplies good breeding stock llamas to the families, because through centuries in inbreeding, the quality of their animals has degenerated. HPI stipulates that each family who receives a female llama must give away her first female offspring to another poor family. HPI also helps the people plant native grasses and learn how to take better care of their llamas. Similar projects supply cattle, water buffalo, rabbits, geese, chickens, bees, sheep, goats, even tree seedlings appropriate to the indigenous communities they are helping. We can donate a whole animal or a share of an animal, or even a whole ark of animals!
• DON BENITO QORIWAMAN
For several wonderful photographs of Don Benito, scroll down past the (Danish) text.
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• JUAN NUNEZ DEL PRADO, JUAN HECTOR MURILLO, WILLIAM SULLIVAN
This page from the Barbara Perrins & Associates website has a wonderful photo of each of the above people. Juan Hector Murillo is referred to as Juanito in my narrative. William Sullivan is the author of one of the books listed in the Bibliography.
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• INCA ARCHITECTURE, Less is More-Much More!
Dr. Ric Finch, of Rutahsa Adventures, Inc, has written a magnificent treatise on Andean architecture, accompanied by many wonderful color photos. of various sites, including Sacsaywaman, Cusco, Tambomachay, Ollantaytambo, Pisac and Machu Picchu. These photos are some of the clearest and best that I've seen on the internet. Even if you're not interested in the technical details of Incan architecture, these photos are worth looking at, as they'll give you a feeling of almost being there in person. A must-visit site!
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• ANDRYS BASTEN - PERU PHOTOS, DESTINATION: MACHU PICCHU
Beautiful photos and account of Andrys' 1997 visit to Peru. Also check out Andrys' other album pages. A very interesting and recommended site.
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• PLACES OF PEACE and POWER
Quoted from the website: "Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. During the past eighteen years, Martin has visited and photographed over 1000 sacred sites in seventy countries.
"This web site discusses Martin's pilgrimage journeys, features many of his photographs and writings, lists calendar details of upcoming slide shows, gives information regarding book and photograph orders, and has links to related sites."
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• ANGELS IN THE ANDES - PHOTOGRAPHY
Aluna Joy Yaxk'in and artist Karen Haughey teamed to produce a multimedia show - Aluna Joy's photographs of sacred sites in Peru overlaid with Karen's paintings of angels, creating what they feel is the astral spiritual aspect of these sacred sites. Also you'll see beautiful photos of Machu Pikchu and some great portraits of indigenous people.
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MACHU PICCHU
The following links are to sites specifically about Machu Picchu.
• MACHU PICCHU DATABASE
This mind-blowing site contains around 400 links to websites dealing with all aspects of Machu Picchu. Some of the sites have photo albums, too. Some sites also include information about other areas of Peru. You could spend the rest of your life exploring from this database!
This site's home page, Dreamscapes, rightly bills itself as "The biggest mysteries megasite on Planet Earth!" Containing a search engine and an enormous A-Z subject update log, it enables you to go to pages of links to subjects about the rest of your other favorite mysteries. This site is not just about ancient ruins and societies. It also contains links to modern mysteries and cultural phenomena, such as Japanese gardens, great white sharks, parasites, Billy the Kid and astronomy. In other words, if it exists, in all probability this site will have links to it! Dreamscapes also contains 200,000 Midi files! Go for it!
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• MACHU PICCHU
This site contains 11 pages of exquisite photos. I'm lucky to have both an iMac computer and a MSNTV (WebTV) set top box. When I view these photos on the large TV screen, via MSNTV, I almost feel like I'm really there again!
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• THE INCA RUINS OF MACHU PICCHU - PERU
Account of a 1978 trek along the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, which hadn't been cleared and reconstructed nearly as much then as it appears today. Do check out the Spanish language site, even if you can't read Spanish. The photos are wonderful.
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• HIKING THE INCA TRAIL TO MACHU PICCHU - SCENERY, RUINS, & INSPIRATION
Ron Davies' site has a lot of info and beautiful photos.
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• THE MACHU PICCHU LIBRARY
This site has many links covering a wide range of subjects about Peru and its sacred sites, especially Machu Picchu, and South America. You can spend hours browsing here.
• CULTURES OF THE ANDES: Quechua Songs & Poems, Stories, Photos
Just like its title suggests, this wonderful website covers a broad range of subjects. Songs, poems, stories are in Quechua with both English and Spanish translations, as is much of the text elsewhere on the site. Lots of lovely photos, mostly of the Andean people. My favorite: the little 'puppy and his boy.' Cultures of the Andes also offers lessons in Quechua, vocabulary, etc free on the internet, as well as on tapes and Cds in English and Spanish. It is best to learn Quechua by hearing it spoken as well as studying the printed text. Also on this website are some Andean crafts for sale and links to other Andean sites. A must-visit site!
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PERUVIAN WHISTLING VESSELS:
• PERUVIAN WHISTLING VESSELS
Daniel Statnekov is probably the first modern person to research the purpose of these ancient ceramic vessels. He discovered that if one blows into the vessel, very high frequencies are produced that result in an altered state of consciousness! Apparently these vessels were precisely psychoacoustically tuned. He believes that ancient Andean shamans used these vessels in their work. Each vessel was buried with its owner. The Andeans never talked about these vessels with their Spanish conquerers and apparently stopped making them after the Spaniards arrived. Statnekov developed an exacting technique for creating modern versions of these ancient vessels.
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• PERUVIAN WHISTLING VESSELS: TRUE SHAMANIC INSTRUMENTS
Statnekov passed on his techniques to Don Wright, who now makes many sets of vessels. An insight struck Don one day that the method of precision constructing and tuning them that he'd been using had "frozen them into the evolutionary level of one of the last cultures (Chimu) to make them." He intuited that the vessels should have their tuning altered, raising the frequencies they produce to be more in alignment and harmony with the present day. Several years ago Don arrived in Peru with a set of whistling vessels for the elders of the village of Q'ero. Juan Nuņez del Prado took him to Q'ero for the gifting ceremony. The elders were thrilled. Don told me that they kept saying, "The vessels summon the apus."
A few years ago I had the opportunity to participate in a whistle blowing session using a set of vessels made by Don. We gathered outside in a lovely wilderness setting in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania (USA). While I was waiting my turn to blow on one, I listened with closed eyes. Then came my turn to blow. The effect was quite startling and definitely put me into an altered state of consciousness. When I relinquished my vessel, again I listened with eyes closed. Suddenly I was aware that our group was surrounded by myriads of nature spirits and devas! I intuited that the frequencies of the sounds had attracted or perhaps summonded them. They felt confused, as we had summoned them, but weren't paying any attention to them! At that time I didn't know anything about the Andean apus and ņust'as. I'm very glad that Don told me what the Q'ero elders said about the sounds of the vessels summoning the apus as this confirmed my own intuition about the power of these vessels. Some day I hope to purchase a set of vessels from Don.
Here are two interviews with Don Wright: 1995 New Frontier and 1997 New Age Info
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• PERUVIAN WHISTLING VESSELS RECORDING
Joe Townend and Jim Albani have produced a tape of the sounds of whistling vessels being blown. One side has the vessel sounds only; the other side has I-Ching Drumming with the vessel sounds. (For information about drumming the I-Ching hexagram patterns, see this website.)
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TRADITIONAL ANDEAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
• WAYANAY INKA - Their Musical Instruments
This page contains a very complete glossary and description of traditional Andean musical instruments. There are many, many more instruments than one would imagine. (See also page 16 for a briefer summary of some of the more common Andean instruments.)
• MYTHOLOGY'S MYTHING LINKS FOR LATIN AMERICA: South America's Andean Peoples (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Northern Chile)
"An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Traditions" by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D. One of the greatest collections of annotated links for Andean mythology, as well as textiles, ceramics, language and other aspects of the Andean culture that I have found so far. A must-see site!
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MYTHOLOGY ABOUT THE SUN AND ITS PLANETS
• THE SUN
This NASA site has links to all sorts of information, mythology and folklore about the sun and its planets. Scroll down until you see the link in the right sidebar to Myths. Click on that. At the top of the mythology page you will see a banner. Click on it, then click on "advanced." This next page has a link to Peruvian myths about the sun. At the bottom of all these pages, you'll find a chart with links to take you to each of the planets. You must click on the "advanced" link at the top of each planet's page to bring up the page with the link to the Peruvian myths about that planet.
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• LORDS OF THE EARTH
"A Web site, which deals with the Archeology and Anthropology of the Americas. These disciplines are based on the study of a specific location, then expanding via concentric circles, into the surrounding areas in order to identify possible diffusion among the various polities." Scroll down and click on the Inca link.
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HOW DID THE ANCIENTS MOVE AND CONSTRUCT WITH SUCH MASSIVE BOULDERS?:
• THE SECRETS OF CORAL CASTLE
This interesting article from 07/19/99 about Miami, Florida's unique Coral Castle presents basic information about its builder and various theories about how he was able to move coral boulders weighing upwards of 30 tons all by himself. Did he really rediscover the means used by ancient builders in the Andes and elsewhere?
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• MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS (MAOI's)
Scroll down past the photo of the rue and click on "Ayahuasca" at the top of the left sidebar. This site is devoted to medicinal uses of hallucinogenic plants. Shamans in the Amazon jungle region often use this strong brew to help them journey for information that will help the people they are trying to heal. Rest assured, though, that we did not use any hallucinogens or other mind-altering plants or substances during the Hatun Karpay initiation. For further information about the use of ayahuasca, and what this may imply for all of humanity, please refer to Jeremy Narby's book, listed in the Bibliography.
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MEDICINAL AND VISION (HALLUCINOGENIC) PLANTS:
• COLLECTION OF AYAHUASCA ARTICLES
Several articles, including a couple by Peter Gorman who has spent many years exploring Peru and the Amazon jungles with native guides and curandero/shamans. Gorman goes into details about what these various shamans taught him about various plants other than the ones used in the ayahuasca formulas. Also included is a tale about the remarkable properties of the mucus scraped from a jungle frog's skin.
• ANDEAN TUBER CROPS: Worldwide Potential
If you're interested in agriculture, the above links to a research report about three indigenous Andean tuber crops other than the many varieties of the so-called white potatoes, which also originated in the Andes. Black and white photos of these crops and their tubers spice up the usual text, charts and tables.
In another article, I have summarized how the Peruvian traditional farmers plant their potatoes by the stars.
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CAMELIDS OF THE ANDES:
• ALPACAS: ALPACAS OF CHASE TAVERN FARM, IN BOWDOIN, MAINE
This is one of a number of farms that have breeding stock alpacas. Chase Tavern Farm also has yarns for sale. To locate other breeders and farms, do a search on alpaca or Andean camilids. See also Della Garcia's children's book for the myth of how these camelids came into being.
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NORTHERN NATIVE AMERICAN LATEST NEWS:
• INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY
Here you can read news articles about the latest events, laws, government rulings and enforcements concerning the North American Native People. Even though you probably won't see any articles here about the Andeans and other indigenous people of Central and South America, you can get an idea of the hassles and obstacles that indigenous people the world over have faced and are continuing to face in these modern times. If any reader knows of any similar news website devoted to the Andeans, please let me know.
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Last revised, October, 2002
