Last night I had a chance to listen to Peruvian shaman Kucho speak at a meeting in Salt Lake. He started elaborating on things I’ve learned in Munay Ki and so I found myself taking notes in order to remember all this new and expanded info from someone native to that area and tradition.
So.. from my notes…
Condor….COOOOON Door.. Say it like that, it has an almost OHM or OOM sound if anunciated properly. The Incans recognized there were 3 worlds. An upper, middle and lower/underworld. The Condor is seen as a sacred bird (amongst eagles, owls, hummingbirds etc). A condor is a special conductor of energy from the upper world. Condor wings symbolize balance. He talked about a special eating ritual that takes place only on high glacier mountain tops. If a condor takes, for instance, an alpaca for food, he will wait 3 days to eat it. Apparently a group of condors will join him. On the 3rd day the largest condor will start with this OOM sound/singing. The birds will pace around the food in a circle (Kucho makes a pounding with his feet and the sound of traditional native american tom-tom drum rhythmas he turns in a circle). This happens a total of 7 times (the first three being in one direction, and the remaining four in the opposite). After 7x of this, then the main/largest condor takes only 2 parts of the food. Kucho couldn’t remember if it was the eyes or heart, but that’s all the big condor takes and flies off leaving the others to fest on the rest.
This particular OHM and turn ritual he said could be used as a cleansing process for ourselves after doing lightwork or being around others at work, etc. He said to stand under cold shower water, tone the OOOM before you turn. Do this clockwise 3x, and then counter-clockwise 4x.
If a condor or other sacred bird should appear along your travels, it means he has a message for you. How big the bird is, the flight path and age of the bird are used to interpret the message (he didn’t elaborate more on this).
** 1/4 way through writing this blog, I stepped outside with my friend at work so she could smoke. I immediately looked up to the sky (next to airport property in SLC) and spyed 3 large dark birds with a huge wingspan and some white underneath. Getting closer we could tell they were large hawks, just riding the wind, and then I spotted the 4th and largest hawk in the rear, hardly flapping his wings at all.. they were all going south to north riding the air currents… absolutely BREATHTAKING. What timing! **
Do not contribute to the extinction of sacred birds by buying their feathers! It is only ok to receive a sacred bird feather as a gift from someone on the spiritual path, but not to receive one from “just anyone”.
In the time of the Pachakuti Inca, Cuzco was the center of the city. The city itself was in the shape of a puma, built in memory of men who were Puma Men..a community of feline like men. This is a time before Lemurians. There were communities of men who were Condor men and Serpent men.
Patchakuti brings memory of ancient civilization….?.. for that time. The city was that of Light, of Love. Highly spiritual pure light people lived. Incan Patchakuti invited gr…(was in a hurry to write, some is lost here) to gain info, and were in 4 and 5th Dimensional. They had a special meeting before Spaniards arrived. A great gong was sounded (they think in Machu Picchu) in the crystal city, and they disappeared/transcended.
Kucho says: “I received a message where I live at the job I was doing. So Cuzco is city of Puma”…”important responsibility to preserve the knowledge of life.” Sun disk ceremonies with a pure gold statue in Cor. Temple of Light. Each day they would put sun disks in the center of the Gold statue of the God of Light. This was putting the energy of the sun in it daily at the first light into its heart.
The first rays of the sun each day are important for ceremony and initiation. The day of 6/21 (and 12/23), the solstice days, were extremely important. He would refer to 6/21 from this point on. There was a sun temple which has coordinates and points which correlate to the 4 directions and constellations AND other places on earth. From what I understood, on 6/21 when they stood at a certain place in this temple, when the first rays came up these rays could be beamed or somehow reached to other points (to Chile, to Bolivia, Brazil..among others) where there were also high priests and people observing. The center was Cuzco. It was a special light/energy expansion…only 400 Incas at that time(?). Other 200 received in special places.
Patchakuti to open that sacred place again. Was around before Incas. Temples in side the mountain of Machu Picchu. Many entrances to sanctuary from all directions of the mountain. Apus- Mountain (pronounced ah poos). Crystal white composition of Mountain.
The secret to entering a sacred place is to enter without expectation. Enter as a clean slate. This was his first lesson. If you are distracted by the magnificence or beauty of a place, you might miss the message or forget to use the opportunity nature provides for you to receive. Have an open mind. Nature, the Apu, the plants and animals talk to you. Approach with an open mind, a clean slate. This applies to ALL sacred places on the planet.
Nature is always hungry and asking things of us. Nature draws our energy in. It’s ok to connect with a spirit of a mountain, with the stars. Use the things drawing us in to transcend. Nature is important. Be aware of it without getting caught up (as mentioned above). If a mountain spirit opens up a portal, USE IT to transcend. Use opportunities in life to transcend instead of getting caught up in the awe of the surroundings.
He then talks of a snake shaped constellation in the sky where the mouth of the snake is located just above the top of a certain mountain on 6/21. He talks of Mama Kocha, mama sara (corn), Mama Tikka (flower). The cave of the spirit of rainbows. That mountains often show a face. This face is the guardian spirit of that mountain (the slide presentation after his speech shows pictures of all of these).
Best time to get initiated is the first light of 6/21. You bow your head for your crown chakra to receive the first light rays of morning. Use this day, this ceremony as a way to “start anew”.
After the speech someone had a question. He elaborated on the area of Salt Lake City, saying that what we need to know here is that our mountains and the Great Salt Lake are temples, just as we have a Mormon temple here. That the mountains and lake have yet to be “activated”, but for us to take advantage of them. He said something along the lines of going walking up through the mountains at night. Lastly he said he has been here 4 times, and not sure why each time, but the energy seems to be increasing each time.
