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Created on : May 23, 2022
El uso de plantas alucinógenas en rituales era común en casi toda Suramérica siglos antes de la llegada de los invasores españoles. Las especies que conocían entonces los indígenas eran varias y las consideraban plantas sagradas, igual que hoy. Los indígenas actuales les otorgan a esas plantas la facultad de transportarlos al mundo de los espíritus, pero son los chamanes quienes poseen el conocimiento para interpretar las visiones. Por eso prefieren llamarlas plantas del conocimiento, y no plantas alucinógenas.
Una bebida potente se prepara con algunas especies del género ...
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Created on : May 23, 2022
The use of hallucinogenic plants in rituals was common in almost all of South America centuries before the arrival of the Spanish invaders. The plant species known to the Indians then were several and were considered sacred, just as today. Indigenous people ascribe to these the faculty of transporting the user into the world of spirits, and it is particularly the shamans who possess the knowledge to interpret the visions. That is why they prefer to call them “plants of knowledge”, and not hallucinogenic plants.
A powerful drink is made from a tree vine of the genus ...
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Created on : May 23, 2022
In the Amazon, January and February are months when the peach palms of Bactris gasipaes are full of fruit. It is also the period when a multitude of fish fills the rivers. It is a season of abundance and a time for celebration. In Colombia, the highly nutritious fruit from this palm tree is commonly known as chontaduro. It can be prepared for consumption in different ways, but during this particular time of the year it is harvested in great quantities to make chicha, a fermented beverage known for hundreds of years by the Indigenous people who also prepare it...
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Created on : May 23, 2022
En el Amazonas, enero y febrero son meses en los que las palmas del género Bactris gasipaes están llenas de fruto. También es un período en el que los ríos se llenan de peces. Es tiempo de abundancia y de fiesta. En Colombia, el fruto nutritivo de esta palma se conoce tradicionalmente con el nombre de chontaduro. Se le prepara para el consumo de maneras diversas, pero durante este momento particular del año se le cosecha en grandes cantidades en la selva para preparar chicha, una bebida fermentada conocida por los indígenas desde hace siglos, quienes...
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Created on : May 23, 2022
Fray Gaspar de Carvajal, testigo presencial de la primera expedición española por el río Amazonas que comandó el conquistador Francisco de Orellana, escribió en 1542 sobre una celebración de los indígenas que presenciaron los españoles en un poblado de la selva: “En esta mesma plaza estaba una casa sobre si exenta e grande del sol, donde los indios hacen sus cerimonias e ritos. Allí se hallaron muchas vestiduras de plumas de diversos colores, asentadas e texidas sobre algodón, e muy gentiles, las cuales se visten los indios para celebrar sus fiestas y baylar, quando allí se juntan para...
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Created on : May 23, 2022
Friar Gaspar de Carvajal, an eyewitness of Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana’s first expedition down the Amazon River in 1542, wrote about celebrations that the Spanish witnessed in a village in the forest: “Over this same square was a big house of the sun where the Indians practiced their ceremonies and rites. There we found many dresses with feathers of different colors, placed and weaved over cotton, and very nice, that the Indians wear to celebrate and dance, when they meet there for some festivity or to rejoice before their idols.” (From: Relación del Nuevo descubrimiento...
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For hundreds of years, tapamaking was one of the most sophisticated plant-fiber technologies in the Pacific Islands. In the eighteenth century and before, tapa served as both daily and ceremonial clothing. It was made into headdresses, turbans, loincloths, sashes, girdles, skirts, and ponchos. The cloth was used for bedcovers, wall dividers, or mosquito curtains as well as for special wrappings of staff gods, for the outer layer of sculptures, for wrapping skulls, and for masks. Individuals were surrounded by tapa at birth, weddings, and death. Special cloths were made for dowries,...
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