They have pure and clean hands can balance the energy. They are in charge of offering on behalf the sins of people around them. Then the wise grandfathers go down to the lake and offer all the elements put on the circle to the water, they throw everything and wait for the water to take them away” said Luis Enrique Tuntanquimba.Ĭhildren have a special function during the ritual. When we starts hitting the floor with our feet we are connecting with the earth and we are saying than you for everything she gives us. “First, we play music to make contact with the spirits. They all go singing ancestral songs like ‘Mama India’ while one of the wise members gives a punch of leaves to each member, for them to clean their hands before the offers.
Candles and mats are also needed, flowers and seeds are the center of the ceremony.Ĭhildren go to the front and adults go to the back of the circle. We gather in circle with the kids, dancing, singing, making peace with the nature, getting clean and prepared to receive the new positive energy” describes Víctor Jaime Tandioy another wise member.įor the ritual, different musical instruments are required like the drums and the quena, and some herbs and plants like tobacco, guaira, chundú and coquianodo. “Since that moment, the harmonization and cleansing process begins. If there is no negative answer against tobacco, it means they are allowed to get in. They walk and they mentally convey everything they need to, nature answers with a positive or negative effect on the body of the person smoking tobacco. They smoke tobacco to communicate with the nature. Once they arrive, traditional doctors and wise grandfathers ask for permission before they get in and start the ritual. We make prayers to the mother earth and then to the lake, that has a positive spirit as the rest of the nature”.
Luis Enrique Tuntaquimba, one of the wise indigenous member that takes part of the beautiful ritual explains: “We make something like a circle in which we offer everything that is given to us by nature, like corn, beans, everything we eat. Los Tunjos lake in Sumapaz, Colombia has been the place chosen by many indigenous communities (like the Misak, Huitotos, Quechuas, Pijaos, etc) for the ritual.Ĭhildren are a very important part of the ritual as they are the ones that ask for forgiveness but at the same time make a call for the whole world to take care of the nature, of the earth and of everything it gives us.
This is the opportunity for them to offer everything they have and to ask for forgiveness and seek reconciliation with the nature. It is a common practice for the indigenous groups in Colombia and Latin American to make a ritual for the nature.
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