Amazonian shamanism, Ayahuasca, plant medicines
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Icaros: Magical Songs of the Amazon
Read the article in pdf format “Icaros: Magical Songs of the Amazon” by Francesco Sammarco, originally published by “Sacred Hoop” magazine (www.sacredhoop.org)
”Ayahuasca: The Magical Brew of Amazonian Shamans”, by Francesco Sammarco
Ayahuasca, ayawaska, yage, yaje, hoasca, daime, natema: the magical Vine of the Soul. The visionary, healing brew ritually used by shamans in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru. Names, chemistry, alchemy, preparation, initiation, usage, dietary restrictions, food to avoid, description, plant constituents and additives of traditional Ayahuasca brews. Ayahuasca diet and ceremony: ritual uses of this entheogenic shamanic medicine.
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The Ayahuasca Journey: Shamanistic v. Psychonautic perspectives
Ethnobotanical Garden Circuit in the Ashi Meraya Centre of Traditional Amazonian Medicine Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco We support and fully embrace the traditional “shamanistic” view on Ayahuasca and plant spirit medicine, over and above the ”psychonautic” perspective which lacks (in our humble view) the discipline, solidity and depth that a proper, traditional shamanic training and [...]
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The Apprenticeship of Don Julio Llerena Pinedo
A rare picture of an Ayahuasca ceremony with Don Julio Llerena Pinedo, in the Aucayacu area of the Peruvian Amazon, in 2001 (*) Photo Credit: Corrado Palazzolo – Copyright © El Mundo Magico by Francesco Sammarco and Dino Palazzolo Don Julio Llerena Pinedo was a remarkable “maestro palero” – an Amazonian shaman specialized in working [...]
”Achuma, Huachuma, San Pedro: A Sacred Journey Across the Mists of Time”
Mario Polia Among the many scholars who have investigated the ancient and contemporary use of the psychoactive San Pedro (Huachuma) cactus in Peru, we would like to remember, in particular, Italian Archaeologist and Anthropologist Mario Polia. His impeccable ethno historical investigation of the ancient sources and records – many of which translated/published for the first [...]
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”Huachuma, Wachuma, Achuma, San Pedro: Cactus of the Four Winds”
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” Revelation, 6:1 San Pedro: The Magical Cactus of the “Cuatro Vientos” Trichocereus Pachanoi B.R. is [...]
”The Ulluchu fruit: blood rituals and sacrificial practices among the Moche people of ancient Peru”
“Bird priest” (lower figure on the right, with wings, beak-like nose and foots to shape of a bird’s claws) in front of the Lord (taller figure on the left), on the motif of the presentation of the sacrificial blood of defeated and captive warriors, offered in a goblet. An Ulluchu fruit is at the feet [...]
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”The Oracle of Pachacamac”
The wooden Idol of the Pachacamac God: ”The One Who Generates the World” (detail) The wooden Idol of the Pachacamac God: ”The One Who Generates the World” (detail) Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco Located 31 km from the Peruvian capital, on the old Southern Pan American Highway, overlooking the fertile Lurin Valley and the Pacific Ocean, [...]
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”The Ancient Greeks, the Incas and the Altomesayoq”
Lightning cults, shamanism and sacredness Francesco Sammarco with a Q’eros Pampamesayoq, Basilio, in the native community of Kikko Photo Credit: Ignazia Posadinu Anthropologist Alberto Villoldo reports the comments of his informant (and mentor), Prof. Antonio Morales, regarding the great civilizations who had developed North of the equator, as been characterized by a “descending God”, where [...]
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”The Q’eros Altomesayoq”
Despacho ceremony with Pampa Mesayoqs don Sebastian (left), and Bacilio (right) Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco The Q’eros, descendants of the Incas – alongside other indigenous communities of the high Andes – distinguish essentially between two different shamans: the Altomesayoq (or Alto mesayoq), a higher shaman elected by the Apu (spirits of the mountains) and stroke [...]
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Mystery Cults Among the Iapygian-Messapian People in The Thesmophoric Sanctuary of Monte Papalucio (Oria, Apulia, Southern Italy)
By Francesco Sammarco, MA in ”Public Archaeology” * “Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries; but he who is uninitiated and who has no part in them, never has lot of like good things once he is dead, down in the darkness and gloom…Right blessed is he among men on [...]
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