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(n) One of the four cardinal directions representing the four winds. (See, level of abstraction, def. 2.) The east is a “positive” or “safe” direction because the sun rises in the east, giving birth to light and a new day. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. (See, also, west, north, south.)
(n) An emotional or religious frenzy or trancelike state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence. WODOWODO · www.websters-online-dictionary.org During this state there occurs the passage from consciousness by means of the unconscious toward a far superior state. Ecstasy occurs in a very tenuous, simple fashion and almost instantaneously. Ecstasy serves to predispose the spirit for flight. The conscious field becomes more alive. The ecstasy prepares one for flight. One passes through ecstasy before the flight. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
(n) Another term for the shamanic journey (see).
(n) Honor. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara
(1) A god of wealth. EFDEFD · encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com A Bolivian god of plenty and wealth. According to an ancient legend, when you place a miniature object in or on a doll representing the god, you will receive what you wish for the following year. It is considered bad luck to remove those objects from the doll. WPOWPO · www.pantheon.org (2) (lower case, ekkeko) An elemental of the mountain; a benefactor who provides the fruits of Pachamama. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures
(n) An archaeological site located north of Trujillo, Peru. At the El Brujo archaeological site are three huacas: Huaca Cao Viejo, Huaca El Brujo, and Huaca Prieta. These structures were built by the Moche people, who lived there between the years A.D. 100 and 700. The people who now live near the El Brujo site tell us that the Huaca Cao Viejo (or White Huaca) is a temple with positive energy, which is represented by a man, the earth or the sun. The Huaca Partida is a temple with negative energy, which is represented by a woman, the sea or the moon. At Huaca Partida, shamans perform ritual mesas (def. 2). Excavations at the El Brujo complex have revealed evidence of human sacrifice, most probably made to Aia-Paec. WRICWRIC · www.research.ibm.com/peru/brujo.htm
(n) Literally, the gilded man. The fabled city of gold. The term originally referred to the Chibcha ceremony in which a chief coated with a vegetable gum and sprayed with gold dust jumped into a lagoon from a raft in order to offer the gold on his body to the gods. The theme of this ritual act seems to have been a symbolic shedding of the skin or metamorphosis. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
Literally, embarassment. Illness related with disharmony of the solar plexus energy. WANWAN · www.amaruli.net
(n) Literally, enchantment, charm. A special stone with healing properties. Encantos can have different colours — black, white, aqua, red, emerald — with each colour corresponding to a specific use in curing an illness. EMMEMM · www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/ The stones can be of a peculiar shape, resembling, e.g., a snake or jaguar claw. The spirit of the stone protects and gives special dreams to the owner of the stone. Vegetalistas claim that the true nature of these stones is seen under the effects of ayahuasca, when one is able to see the powerful spirits that live inside them. They are used for healing — for instance, by rubbing the patient with an encanto in the place where illness is located — or as a defense by invoking the spirits. AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna A great power source for a curandero, such as a sacred mountain. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. Spirit entities. Duality and separability of spirit-essence and physical manifestations permeates the natural world as well [as the human being’s ability to separate spirit from body]. The spiritual essence of caves, springs, mountains and highland lagoons is understood in two ways. First, it may be an inherent feature of the particular place. Second, it may be the accumulated spiritual essence of humans who lived and died at that place — on the mountain, in the cave, or at the lakeshore — in previous eras. Both definitions of this spiritual essence are referred to generically as the encanto of the place. GOLGOL · The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, Glass-Coffin.(See, rumi, khuya.)
See. willcachina.
See, subtle energy.
(n) A God-given illness that is a catalyst for regaining a connection to Spirit or to reveal a specific teaching otherwise impossible to learn without the condition. It is the shaman’s responsibility to carefully discern the intention of Spirit and to mediate change accordingly. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee
(n) A maker of love spells. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
(n) The vital generating principle. It is the fount and origin of happiness, well-being, and abundance. Enqa is a special gift which permits good fortune to accompany the family, preserving the herds which support it. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. A black hole, or one who can absorb all the living energies. RS QNO Inca [enqa] is the original model of all things; probably this is the fundamental meaning: archetype. CSCRCSCR · Cut Stones and Crossroads, Wright Talisman, a magical character, a sacred item used as the container of health, abundance, and safety. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee Talisman or medicine object used as a container for health, well-being, and abundance; most likely the origin of the word Inka, enqa refers to a repository of collective energy, a black hole, or a person who can absorb all forms of energy. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)Life force contained in an enqaychu. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin Origin of Inca; health, balance, well-being. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures See, conopa
(n) (1) The graphic manifestation of enqa (see, above). WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.. A small stone, natural or carved, that resembles an animal, human or object, considered to contain life force and the power to bring good things to one’s life. Also called an illa. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin(2) In the Cusco area, the term used for conopa. The enqaychu is is said to contain the animo or life-force of the livestock. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. (3) The principle of abundance and fertility.UNKUNK · The original author's marker for an unknown / unattributed source.
(n) An entanglement of the spirit caused by witchcraft (a love spell). From enredar, to entangle in a net. WOFW SEES WPH The artificial manipulation of human sentiment is a type of sorcery that illustrates the relationship among the etiology of illness, the constraining ideologies of machismo and marianismo, and the precarious nature of relations of dependence. Love magic has been used as a sorcery technique since at least the early colonial period. This form of daño is directed toward a specific victim because of envy, jealousy, or revenge. Intended to manipulate or dominate another’s will, love magic is known by many terms, including pisada and atada. Like other forms of daño, the effects of love magic occur because the victims soul has been called away from the body and commended to another. Instead of commending the soul to an encanto (see, above) or an ánima, the soul is turned over to the perpetrator so the victim will feel irresistibly drawn toward him or her. This unnatural binding of two souls occurs when the victim absorbs the prepared potion or powder, either directly (by ingestion) or indirection (through airborne means). Drinking menstrual blood that has been surreptitiously mixed in hot chocolate, or donning underpants that have been worked with the hex are two common examples. Or sympathetic magic may be employed, as when the intended’s photograph is placed in the perpetrator’s shoe and the pisada occurs with every footstep taken. GOLGOL · The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, Glass-Coffin.
(n) The word entheogen is a modern term derived from two Ancient Greek words, entheos and genesthai. Entheos means literally in God, more freely translated inspired. Genesthai means to cause to be. So an entheogen is that which causes (a person) to be in God. In its strictest sense the term refers to a psychoactive substance (most often some plant matter) that occasions enlightening spiritual or mystical experience. In a broader sense, the word refers to artificial as well as natural substances that induce alterations of consciousness similar to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional shamanic inebriants, even if it is used in a secular context. EWOEWO · en.wikipedia.org
(n) In thermodynamics, a measure of the amount of energy not available for work during a natural process. RHCDRHCD · Random House College Dictionary
(n) (1) A spiritist, male or female, who works with the spirits of her ancestors to help diagnose and cure sorcery-related illnesses. GOLGOL · The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, Glass-Coffin. (2) Espiritista: vegetalista who works solely with spirits. [Note use of fem. endings.] MSINMSIN · conference paper The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú, Luna
(n) Spirit, ghost. PSLPSL · www.geocities.com/phillott/Bolivia/Dictionary02.htm — Bolivian Quechua
(n) Spirit world (sp.). PSLPSL · www.geocities.com/phillott/Bolivia/Dictionary02.htm — Bolivian Quechua
(n) The plain of the spirits, located some 170 km northwest of Cusco, was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, just a few weeks after his discovery of Machu Picchu. This is considered to be Vilcabamba, the lost city of the Inca (sp). HDPHDP · www.hc09.dial.pipex.com
Literally, to stimulate the singing. Ayahuasca sessions are noted for visual and auditory (even olfactory) hallucinations of spirits dancing and singing and playing instruments. Guardian spirits bring icaros to the vegetalista. AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna
(n) (Span) The star or spirit of an apu. The summoning of the paq’o by a physical manifestation of the estrella. May take the form of bulls, condors, hummingbirds or pumas, or come in a dream as a glowing human figure in a white robe. Sacred lagoons may also send estrellas. KOAKKOAK · Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge, Wilcox
See, iwanqiliu.
See, mal aire.
(n) The title given to the colonial religious office in the archbishopric of Lima, established in 1610, charged with the eradication the Andean religions. IBCNIBCN · Spiritual Encounters: Interactions Between Christianity and Native Religions, Griffiths Jesuit missionaries were impressed upon that their very first duty, upon entering a village, was to get their hands on the lineage huaca and destroy it. If the paqarina could be located and destroyed or defaced, so much the better. SIMASIMA · The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time, Astronomy, and the War Against Time,* Sullivan
(n) The process by which a shaman removes blockages, objects imprinted in the energy field, or even heavy energy by sucking, brushing or sweeping, using a sacred object or the hands. That which is extracted must be disposed of properly by putting it in the ground or in running water. It can also be disposed of with hucha mikhuy. PGO PSPM See, also, sucking.