500 YEARS

All great universal cultures have the foundations of their civilisation bound to the essential religious and universal principles of creation. The case of the great culture and civilisation of the ancient continent called "Abya-Yala" is no exception. Abya-Yala is the true name of the continent baptised America by the invaders in order to honour the human personality of a would-be Spanish noble.

According to the Inca cosmology Pachacamac is the creator, the fundamental aspect of life, and the essence of the cosmos. Pachacamac chose in the dawn of time the spherical place in great space where he would create our solar system. It was known by all the great sages and initiates of ancient times that in all cosmic creation the two eternal principles are always present in the origin of creation, both in the infinitely small and the infinitely large. These two eternal principles were well known in some oriental cultures as Yin and Yang. In the Inca cosmology these two eternal principles were called Pachacamac and Pachamama. The masculine principle Pachacamac, after having selected the exact point where he would realise his creation invoked the eternal generative principle of the universe, Pachamama and poured his spiritual energies into the centre of that selected sphere thereby giving life and expression to our solar system.

Inti is the solar and spiritual being that always manifests as a principle of life in our solar system and expresses himself through the physical light that emanates from our sun. The planets are expressions of the light of the great sun (Hatum Inti) and they have a profound relationship with him that was known by the South American Indigenous Sages, a relationship very similar to that which the colours have with white light or the octaves with musical notes. Speaking in very general terms we can say that the Indians of South America knew the life on our planet as something intimately bound together with the universal life, which is to say that all the actions in the earth are related to other actions that have their place in the heavens and at the same time all that takes place in space is related to that which takes place on the earth.

This helps us to understand that for the simple Indians of Abya-Yala life in our planet is connected to the rest of the universe in the same way that a cell is related to the rest of the body of which it is a part. This is the first secret of the universal knowledge and wisdom of the indigenous peoples of South America that the true investigator of the sciences of nature needs to know truly and deeply. The interior connection that orientates the indigenous psyche and rationality always looks for the interior coherence of the events that pass in Mother Nature, Pachamama. For this reason all the indigenous logic and thinking has a character that is primordially analogical, symbolic and of synthesis.
These three factors are what every authentic anthropologist and investigator of South American Indigenous cultures should know and understand as a basic orientation before he enters into any argument or explanation about the nature of the Indigenous peoples. Without this understanding he is likely to fall into many errors and distortions that taint and corrupt the ancient knowledge left by these cultures as a legacy for eternity, transcending time and cultures.
The shamanism of the light goes much further than mere concepts elaborated in the universities of modern man and its profound verification goes further than mere material proofs from the laboratory. Not even history has the capacity to demonstrate the truth with authentic honesty because it has been subject to factors conditioned by invasion, domination and exploitation. The imposition that the invader and his sword have considered correct and the partial or total rejection of all that his mind has not been able to understand has also clouded and obscured real knowledge and understanding.

For the Indigenous, as the Inkario said in his true words, "Just as a pond of water reflects clearly the sky, the human society also reflects the celestial and divine order". In the indigenous culture the Iachags, Amauras, Curacas, Caciques (wise men, healers, chiefs) etc were always the true founders and instructors of humanity.

In the Tahuantinsuyu (Inka culture and council) the great Altomisayocs (The higher Curacas or Iachags) left a rich cultural and spiritual inheritance that for many centuries has served as the base of the major part of the cultural traditions of the South American Indians. This was the ancient government of sages where the decisions of the Yachagkuna were made, that is to say the advice of the ancient sages. They in their position as spiritual guides knew how to lead their people ahead of events. These great sages knew how to appreciate nature in all its great magnitude, establishing special festivities in accordance with the cyclic transformation of nature. The solstices and equinoxes were accompanied by celebrations in all the length and breadth of Abya-Yala and all the villages were able to express in their particular form the manner in which they felt united with their Pachamama. Cuzco was the Inka capital and in their sacred geography it was considered to be the navel of the world. Here they established a beautiful solar temple named Coricancha, that was one of the sacred places of the Andes and in it, together with the sun and the moon, were all the divinities of protection of the villages that were united to the Inka kingdom. This temple had a beautiful garden from which the name Coricancha came which in Quechua means Golden Garden. Here there were many life size statues of gold representing many animals and sacred plants of the Andes. However, gold for the ancient Indians did not have the same commercial meaning that it had for the Spanish invaders. For them it had a purely ritualistic and spiritual significance and was considered to be a metal of solar origin. They also knew it to be the metal that best reflects the solar light.

The Tahuantinsuyu was a marvellous culture as much for its culture as for its lifestyle and the products of its culture in many aspects were superior to those of Europe which shows that during this time the cultures of Europe had fallen into a state of darkness and superstition.
Although Europe had advanced in the sphere of power and material domination it was retrogressing in moral, spiritual and interior values. This was something that was also happening on a much wider scale in all parts of the Earth and there were many cultures and civilizations entering into an involutive cycle.
The Indigenous of Abya-Yala, despite being separated from the rest of the world were also entering a phase of decadence and the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus was the signal for the fall of almost all of a great culture that had its roots in the civilization of Atlantis. The mysteries, history and wisdom about man and the universe were 'written' in its objects of gold and its temples but much was lost at the hands of the ignorant minds of the invaders who only appreciated the commercial value of what they found. Their eyes were not prepared to understand the truth of what they found before them.

Lamentably, as was warned by the great sages of the indigenous peoples, the symptoms of decadence that they had observed in times before continued to grow until the civilisation fell into total conflict in a battle for the succession of power between the sons of Huaynacapac named Atahualpa and Huascar. A civil war followed which coincided with the arrival of the Spanish who were able to take full advantage of the division. However, all of this was foreseen by the great sages of Abya-Yala. They knew that this was the karma that was beginning in accord with the cyclic changes of history; every five hundred years there being great social transformations and changes that result in a new scale of values that alternatively correspond to the people of one hemisphere of the planet above those of the other. The indigenous sages knew that the northern part of the planet is of masculine polarisation and the southern part is feminine. Furthermore they understood that the countries of the north are active and enterprising, always destined to realise great transformations but in their negative aspect there lurks the seeds of all destructive and dominant imperialism that generates great wars and destruction according to the desire for power of the dominating people.
The south is of polarisation feminine and governed by Venus. It is more passive and loves liberty and nature. Its people know to find tranquillity in the simple rather than the complicated. They are more contemplative, reflective and spontaneous. They have the impulse to look for their progress through the elements given by Mother Earth.

These two forces are necessary for the planetary balance. Furthermore an imbalance in them generates grave problems in the process of evolution of the psyche of the planet and her inhabitants.
Logically we shouldn't understand or interpret these polarisations fanatically, there are other influences and degrees of influence according to geographical location. That which the indigenous try to demonstrate through this is that life is influenced through the masculine and feminine forces and that they need to be in constant movement for life to be maintained.
The Iachags call the transforming force Pachakutik. This force impels in its turbulence the events that bring to a close each epoch or period of history. When this epoch of splendour finished the wise Indians hid many treasures of the wisdom of their ancestors to protect them from the coming pillage of their culture. The end of this Pachacutik and the initiation of the next coincided with the arrival of the Spanish who barbarically destroyed the civilised works of the Indians obscuring and erasing much of our past and our culture. In this way they persecuted and killed the cream of our culture. Many wise Amauras, Iachags and Caciques were cruelly assassinated. Others, however, managed to escape the barbary and hide in unexplored regions to wait for the day when a new era will signify the return and rebirth of Abya-Yala in its sciences and the return of the culture of our ancestors with new life and vigour. In many cases the Iachags and Amauras went incognito becoming peasants and living the agricultural life in all its facets. The wisdom began to be transmitted from one initiate to another, forming in this way a secular chain permanently hidden and ignored by the majority of us for many years.

In the name of the truth we would like to say that there is much that we have forgotten and ignored of true history because there is very little that we have been allowed to know in respect of the indigenous values. This has been the dark age of Abya-Yala because with the arrival of the conquistadors the foundations on which the people based their lives were split and broken.

The Indigenous peoples were systematically evicted from their lands and it was necessary for them either to immigrate to the higher parts of the mountains or go to areas close to the urban civilisation. The majority of the invaders were delinquents and ignorant, not giving any value to what they found other than the commercial values they had in their culture. The cultural riches of the indigenous people were only significant according to what they contained by way of gold or silver and so they looted and profaned the temples committing a genocide of enormous proportions.
What happened is not known in all its dimensions and savagery. Terrible crimes were hidden in order to maintain the faith in a religion and its priests and nobles who had among their laws "Thou shalt not kill." In truth they brought an evangelism of death, the Bible in one hand and a sword in the other and in this way planted their roots in the sleeping consciousness of the American man. Until this day all of this has continued in the same way. The message of God has continued to be a message manipulated by exploiters in the service of a few "nobles."

As was said earlier a Pachakutik is the passing of the ages in cycles that were calculated by the ancient indigenous sages. One Pachakutik is about five hundred years. The year of 1490 (in Christian timescales) was the beginning of the ninth Pachakutik in the Andina cosmology. The wise Amauras and Iachags of antiquity knew this very well and for much time had spoken of this. Because of this, two years before Christopher Columbus arrived in America, the Indians had initiated preparations for this event. The wise Masters guided the people as they were the directors of the culture and its people. They hid many temples in states of "Jinas" (4th Dimension) which is to say that they were made invisible to the eyes of the profane. In the same way they hid all the secrets of their splendour and glory like the supreme lords of knowledge that they were, also selecting people spiritually prepared for making this exodus in order that they should be the guardians of these treasures and wisdom.
Before departing they said to the guardians: "Guranga, guranga, kutun shamusun" which means "thousands and thousands will come again". These words are those that are today coming to life. The indigenous spirit will be revived little by little for the salvation of the man that still holds noble sentiments in his heart.

In these five hundred years of domination that the American people have suffered all the cultural expressions of the indigenous peoples have been marginalised and persecuted as diabolical, fetishist and pagan.
The truth is that when the white man of imperialist consciousness wants to damage or destroy, he always finds the way in which to invent laws and terminologies that justify his acts of savagery. This is what he has done in America.
The church decides who has a soul and who doesn't and based in this they commit the criminal acts to the satisfaction of the priests and soldiers who dance hand in hand.
The indigenous have always said that the laws of the white man are hollow and empty, that they are incoherent and vary with time and custom according to the fashions invented by commerce and the greed that drives it. For this reason they lack logic and responsibility.
The laws of nature are eternal and coherent because they are sustained by that which is real, life itself. The natural law sustains the balance and harmony of all beings that live for they are the sons of the law.
This, however, was not understood by the white man and because of this it has taken more than 500 years for him to arrive at the point of thinking about his actions and life on this planet.
They tried to teach the principles of a mysticism that they themselves didn't understand and spoke of a Master called Jesus that they themselves killed.
The indigenous reasoned that a religion of death only brings death, they didn't believe in its representatives but they were able to extract the essence of its mystery and philosophy, also understanding that the real message of Christ was the same as the message of all the Masters that had incarnated among them, for example, Bochica and Quetzalcoatl. Furthermore they were able to accommodate and harmonise all the spiritual values of their original religion and that which they received from Catholisism, hiding and perpetuating their mystic spirit up to this day.

An Inka prophecy says that the end of the Inka sleep will arrive when in the lands of the Hanak Suyu there is a great movement and commotion in the society, giving rise to the reconstruction of the Tahuantinsuyu. This prophecy is now beginning to take place.
In the month of June 1990, in the festival of Inti-Raymi (festival of the sun) the majority of the provinces of Ecuador made a vigorous awakening of the indigenous people giving voice to the wish to reclaim their rights.
The indigenous of Ecuador have been the creators of one of the most important indigenous movements in America in these times but the attack of capitalist corruption, Ecuadorian politicians and bankers and the intervention of the imperialist USA in Ecuadorian matters shows that this movement has hardly begun and that there are many monsters and beasts that it needs to overcome if it is to realise the true human aspirations that the Ecuadorian people have felt during all of this 500 years of oppression and injustice.
The history of the indigenous movement of Ecuador goes back to the first rebellions against the conquest. There have always been great defenders of the culture and dignity of the indigenous.
We remember Ruminahui who directed the resistance against the Spanish invasion of 1535.
Juamandi was another hero who led the rebellion of the Amazonian natives in 1578.
In 1872 Dakilema initiated the rising of the province of Chimborazo in the Sierra Central.
But it was in the 20th Century that the indigenous of many different regions began to organise themselves and gain respect for their ideas and their culture.
In 1991 the political constitution of Colombia was changed to allow, for the first time, the participation of indigenous peoples so that they could gain respect for their shamanic traditions, their laws and their culture in general. At least this is how it was written on paper.
We have also seen the growth of a political alliance between sectors of the peasant communities that has gained acceptance and force.
In Colombia the indigenous have realised great protests against the abuses carried out by the big petroleum companies and the theft of their lands by the rich.
There have also been massive protests against the aerial fumigations made by order of corrupt politicians and military generals from the United States with the pretext of attacking drug trafficking. These fumigations have caused great environmental problems in areas inhabited by many indigenous and peasant peoples giving rise to cases such as in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta where children have been born deformed. There have also been many epedemics and illnesses that attack the people, the flora and the fauna.
The Colombian indigenous have also protested against the use of their lands as training grounds for the North American military and their displacement from their natural and ancestral homes.
One of the biggest protests in Colombian history was the "Campesino-Indigenous March" against the grave problem of the fumigations against the coca crops as a form of control enforced by obligation by the USA.
This march was made in 1996 but sadly the lives of many innocents were lost, including those of women and children, without the people finding any practical solutions that would give the marginalised peasants rights. On the contrary they received further military repression and abuses supported by President Clinton.

The situation in Ecuador has been a little different:

In 1990 the indigenous peoples of Ecudaor joined together in the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). In June of that year they made the best uprising in the history of Ecuador, an uprising that was transformed into a symbolic act that signaled the indigenous entrance into modern politics. The uprising of 1990 initiated an internal change within the Ecuadorian armed forces who initiated a process of coming closer to the indigenous people, something that hasn't happened in Colombia where the military forces are dedicated to protecting the interests of the United States, having abandoned the task of defending the interests of their own people.
In October 1992, under the slogan "We will not dance on the tombs of our ancestors", the indigenous people of Ecuador marched from many parts of the country to the capital Quito to remember 500 years of indigenous resistance.
In Colombia the indigenous also tried to show their position against the comedy of the celebration of the Conquest under the slogan; "500 Years, Celebrate What?"
Logically the indigenous movement in Ecuador has showed itself to be the most transcendent social movement in Ecuador and one of the best organised in all America. It is the only movement that has the capacity to paralyse the country for day after day.
Miguel Lluco, an indigenous spokesman said:
" The plural reality of the country is manifested when the indigenous emerge as important actors in the socio-political life of Ecuador. It can be seen that the 'other' exists and has his differences and rights."
In 1996 the national movement, "Pachakutik" was born and the indigenous Luis Macas explained that "The essence of Pachakutik is unity in diversity."
In this way the indigenous movement has continued its evolution and at the beginning of the new millennium, in January 2000, the indigenous of Ecuador were very near to taking power in Ecuador due to the crisis provoked by the corrupt bankers of the country. The indigenous initiated a great uprising in which many sectors of the population were united to oust the corrupt president Mahuad.
The demonstrations finished on the 21st of January when the indigenous took over the congress with the support of the armed forces who had decided to serve the nation and not the corruption.
Due to this the Organisation of American States, controlled politically by the USA entered into an emergency session.
Unfortunately, although they were close, the indigenous couldn't complete the desired change, but this is one more piece of evidence that the indigenous spirit is awakening in this new Pachakutik and the advance will continue gradually until a new society develops that could save this world from a collapse of great proportions.
The negative forces, however, have not recognised the need to change and have not permitted the indigenous to develop the change that could serve as an example for all of South America and the entire world.

In the year 1490 the final Tandanakui (Council) met, two years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Bermudas with the standards of Spain on the beaches of Guanahani. The preparation for this event in reality was very large stretching over two generations and two Inka dynasties but these final two years were decisive.
For much time before there existed legends that spoke of the arrival of the fake Huirokochas, those men white and bearded that reminded the Indians of Tunupa, the great Andina Christ, carrying the message of the superior life that for them was the voice of the great life of the universe.
However, the psyches of these men that arrived from the other side of the ocean were very different. Although very similar physically to Tunupa or Huirakocha they did not speak of love and solidarity, they were the bearers of a cruel destiny and of the disintegration of America. The conception of life of these Europeans was very different to that of the Indigenous and the ancient sages of Abya-Yala knew that the physical type of the intruders and the type of soul were distinct. They knew that the end of the solar era had arrived and that now came the darkness of a lunar era.
For them this was frightening and horrible but they also knew that this lunar era would arrive at its end and that an era of light would return again. The awakening of a new age of life in balance and harmony will be the result of the life of a new people that will form, a metitzo (mixed blood) people, a meeting of races, universally human that will crystallise in the return of the souls of the Iachags, Amauras, Apus, Cauques and Shamans.
The awakening of a people is a process that requires time but is a process in which all their leaders will return as well as their thinking and their traditional values of consciousness and dignity. In this process the wisdom will return with all its archetypes radiating with its force in a high grade of profundity influenced by the great love of Pachamama.

Of the treasures of the Indigenous it was only gold that the Europeans searched for with much covetousness. The best treasures consisted of a wisdom codified in many forms; this was hidden so it would not fall into the hands of the profane. However, now we are beginning to understand some of these secrets with the gradual initiation of the new Pachakutik. In the same way it took time for the Europeans to totally destroy the Indian culture it will also take time to rediscover it. The Indians also hid many symbolic artefacts that describe the cosmic processes and levels etc, pictograms, codices and Quipus. Quipus are coloured chords of different thickness' in which much information and calculations were encoded by the indians of Peru. Also statues, inscriptions, ceramic objects, works of goldsmiths and in general all that for them had a true value were taken from the temples to secret places in the jungles, in the basins of big rivers and in mountain ranges inaccessible to current man. The wise shamans entrusted special spirits of nature to impede undesired visitors with strange natural phenomena. These places exist in different parts of South America in the jungles and mountains.

Now the rays of the sun are breaking up the darkness so that we can find the life in Alpamama - Mother Earth. The beautiful disc of Inti had now risen reverberating across the heavens, illuminating all the shades of green of the new age.
Those who believe that the awakening of this new Pachakutik is something isolated and unique to the continent of South America are mistaken. All the time the universality of the indigenous ray is more evident. As the awakening from this long dream continues so all the shamanic cultures of the planet will awaken because they are all connected internally. Their mission is to initiate the radical transformation and purification of the planet, not by imposition but through teaching true human values, contrary to those values taught currently by capitalism, communism, evangelism and so on.
In 1992, the year in which the 500th anniversary of the "discovery of America" was commemorated, the Indigenous leaders of all the countries of America united under the motto "500 years of Indigenous resistance". They drew up plans of action as part of a continental reply to the supposed "discovery of America and the new world" that the Spanish government and the landlords began to celebrate making for themselves huge quantities of money.

All of this is the first manifestation of the awakening of the American people. South America with all its Amazonian and Andean zones is destined to become one of the centres of the new age. This was visualised by all the Hatun-Apus, Iachags, Intichuricunas and great Curacas. Master Samael Aun Weor also revealed this information. The new shamanism will be born in South America together with the new age. It is now that the wise Amauras of the old times will return. It is now when we will comprehend that only with the return of the cult of fire and nature will the sinister forces of the past age of darkness be dispersed.
Lets open ourselves, therefore, to our true role because as was said by Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor "The beginning is equal to the end plus the experience of the cycle" and this is something that is always completed at the initiation of a new age. The superior aspects that are required in the path of preparations and initiation of the advanced Iachags and Curacas were extinguished for much time but kept alive in the hermetic silence that all true sages keep.
Also, the feeling of our race, which was profoundly rooted in Mother Earth, has continued, passing adversities and resurecting ancestral practices and customs.

The Creative Trinity:

Pachakamak, Pachamama and Inti, will again be understood.
The indigenous vision of creation and nature is an act of love for he that generates universes. The indigenous culture is a vital culture, the culture that harmonically continues the life of man in relation to Alpamama or Mother Earth.
Our solar system is called "Inti Pamba Pacha" which means "The Place of Inti in Time and Space". The conception of creation is also a constant pulsation that has a beginning and end and with all ends there is a new beginning.
The Indigenous vision of the earth and cosmos is not a manufactured vision that separates and fragments the totality of life.

In the order of the absolute ideas the snake eating its tail symbolises the infinite movement within itself. This was a profound interpenetration into cosmic symbolism. Few have known the truth in reference to the great magnitude of gnostic and occult knowledge of the indigenous people because few are the scientists and esotericists who have controlled their pride to discover with true astonishment in how many ways the Indians were more advanced than us in reference to their mathematic calculations, their architecture, technology etc. which they used to realise carvings and special works in rock and rock crystal, not to mention many other inexplicable artefacts and their shamanic/spiritual practices.

We understand that the epoch of the conquest was narrated by Spanish writers and the history they told later was based on what these writers said and upon the study of the documents that recorded information about the activities and dealings of the Spanish. Documents reflecting the interests of the Spanish that were logically made to obtain the acknowledgement of the King for the personal work of the Spaniards concerned. On various occasions a number of these testimonies have been examined to see how they relate on the question of the same event and it has been proven that the different accounts give different dates and accounts of same event. It is easy to see that events in Latin America have always been seen from the point of view of the chronicles and from the point of view of Spain and Europe in general. Never from the view of the indigenous. How distinct and different the history would be if it had been written by the indigenous.

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