**The Elizabeth
Linnæus Phenomenon, is the
name given to the phenomenon of “flashing flowers.” Especially at
dusk, these orange flowers may appear to emit small “flashes.” Once
believed to be an electrical phenomenon, it is today thought to be an
optical reaction in the human eye caused by the contrast between the
orange flowers and the surrounding green. The phenomenon is named after
Carl Linnaeus’ daughter, who discovered it at age 19. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www)
*Masteurzo,
or nasturtium,
foliage and flowers*. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www)
mast’ay,
mastai: (v) (1) Make oneself available to. To reveal oneself. (2) To
spread out, to extend. PSLPSL · www.geocities.com/phillott/Bolivia/Dictionary02.htm — Bolivian Quechua
(n) An aperture.
matapalo,
higuerote: (n)
Clusia trioecia**.**
In their
churches, Peruvians burn the beautiful resin that flows abundantly from
these trees instead of olive incense. The resin, in amorphous masses
often weighing a pound and a half, is between reddish and golden in
color, and nearly transparent. It is very shiny and hard, even when
freshly gathered from the tree. PFUPFU · plantsforuse.com This
strangler [an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the
trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling
the tree. WWPEWWPE · wordnetweb.princeton.edu] yields a
resin which is highly esteemed in Peru for curing ruptures and
fractures. REPCREPC · Ruiz as an Ethnopharmacologist in Peru and Chile, Schultes [taxonomy accuracy questionable]
matecllu: (n) A
water plant whose leaf juice was used to clear the eyes. A poultice
made fromt he bruised leaves was very effective in correcting some
forms of blindness and relieving eye pain. ACAACA · Ancient Civilizations of the Andes, Means
Mauqallqta:
(n) The name of the modern town near the sites of Pacaritambo
and Tambo Toco.
MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux
maycha:
(n) (1) Medicinal high-altitude plant also used to start fires for
offerings. (2) A pejorative reference to a healer of dubious ability. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin
mayco
(AYM): (n) King. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara
maycoña
(AYM): (n) Kingdom. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara
Mayta
Capac:
The name of the legendary fourth Inca
emperor of the later 12th Century. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and MolyneauxHe
developed an arresting personality. He was very brave in war and very
melancholic in daily life. Wholly devoted to the established idols, he
was a very wise man who knew all the herbs and medicines as well as the
forthcoming events and times. His reign was noted for the influence
which the magicians and astrologers had in that epoch. He was himself a
healer and devoted most of his time to meditation and severe fasting.
Being a capable administrator of the human soul, he knew how to take
advantage of the influence of the holy men of the community in order to
maintain peace in the empire. Even his private life was influenced by
the divine calling since he married Mama Tarpu Cori of the ayllu Tarpuntaes (of the most pure priestly
caste), and gave her the surname of Mama Coca. He was later poisoned by
his sister-in-law, Cusi Chimbo. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
It
seems that Mayta Capac was born with teeth, and when he was only one
year old he had the appearance and strength of a lad of eight. When he
was only two years old, he was a full grown man who could fight and
vanquish all the boys in the imperial court. Some chroniclers
called him the Inca Hercules. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
Mayu:(n)
(1) River. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin
JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures
RSRS · runasimi.de
(2) The Milky Way, a celestial river, whose movements were observed by
the Inca from the Qoricancha
in Cusco.
In Inca
cosmology, the movements of Mayu were the starting point for
calendrical correlations with natural changes on the earth. From these
observations they organized daily, seasonal and annual labor and
ritual. This is in contrast to most cultures that took their charting
from the closest celestial bodies of the sun and moon. The
intercardinal axes of Mayu corresponded to the routes out of Cusco to
the Tawantinsuyu
and ceke
alignments. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux
During the 24 hours that it crosses zenith, Mayu forms two
intersecting, intercardinal axes (NE - SW and SE - NW). These great
luminous axial lines create a grid for the entire celestial sphere,
dividing it into four quarters, called sayu.
All other astronomical phenomena can then be plotted and characterized
by the quarters in which they occur or travel across. MARMAR · www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/archy/aymara/inca.html
The Inca also recognized dark cloud constellations (see,
pachatira).
The Incas were convinced that their fate was intertwined with the
movements of the stars and planets. The stars foretold their
civilization’s doom in 1532 in nothing less than a dire warning of an
impending precessional event that, to the Incas, predicted future ruin.
Drawing on their ancient mythological database, the Incas reasoned
(from the principle “as above, so below”) that loss of contact with the
ancestors, upon which their religious beliefs were founded (see,
mallqui),
would mean their way of life would be destroyed on Earth. The gate
or bridge
to the land of the ancestors — that is, the rising of the December
solstice Sun with the Milky Way — was about to be washed away. Drawing
on their ancient mythological database, the Incas reasoned that loss of
contact with the ancestors would mean their way of life would be
destroyed on Earth. SIMASIMA · The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time, Astronomy, and the War Against Time,* Sullivan(3)
Mayu is the shaman’s road. The
celestial river passes beneath the Earth after first entering the
cosmic sea in the west. We can well imagine the tremendous mixing and
crossing of subterranean water, earth and animals which occurs as Mayu
passes beneath the earth and how, therefore, the animals in the sky are
intimately connected with the animals of the earth. Mayu is actually
made up of two rivers, not one. The two Mayus originate at a common
point in the north, flow in opposite directions from north to south,
and collide head on in the southern Milky Way. The bright stellar
clouds in this part of the Milky Way represent the foam resulting from
the celestial collision. Both “ends” of the Milky Way are subterranean
for a period of time in their revolution around their respective pole.
But since the Milky Way is inclined with respect to the plane of the
earth’s rotational axis, one center of the Mayu will be above ground
while the opposite center is below ground. The water in the Celestial
River enters the celestial sphere when the northern end of the Mayu is
underground (i.e., when it is in the cosmic ocean) since the point of
origin of the Celestial River is in the north, whereas the point of
union of the Rivers is in the south. Thus, while terrestrial rivers
conduct water downward (rain > streams > rivers
moving downward), the Celestial River recycles water upward (Cosmic
Ocean > northern Milky Way moving upward). The Milky
Way is therefore an integral part of the continual recycling of water
throughout the Quechua universe. ACESACES · At the Crossroads of Earth and Sky: An Andean Cosmology, Urton (See, Southern Cross.)
Def. 2.
(Def. 3) The cosmic circulation of water via Mayu as
it would be seen from
space. The earth is visualized as an orange floating in a bowl of water. ACESACES · At the Crossroads of Earth and Sky: An Andean Cosmology, Urton
mediation
of opposites (Eng): (n)
A philosophical theory by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). He
developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of
contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and
united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www) The theory
of mediation involves the view that relative opposites are conceptually
… unified. Hegel’s theory … is that … all opposites are
relative. OCMOCM · myweb.lmu.edu/snason/Research_and_Writing_files/Opposites, Contradictories, and Mediation for Web Page.pdf (Compare, coincidentia oppositorum.)
**There
are people who suffer too much, who are in chaos, in life as in death.
Thus it is necessary to give them relief without prejudice, without
discriminating against a particular disposition; to dispense good in an
absolute fashion without condescension, without selfishness, without
restrictions.** —
Eduardo el Curandero WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. (See, tukuy
munayniyoc.)
medicina
(Span): (n) Medicine.
medicina
de estudio (Span):
(n) Literally, studied medicine. Western, allopathic medicine. MSINMSIN · conference paper The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú, Luna
The
greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are
physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two
cannot be separated. —
Plato
Adherents
of the scientific world view fondly believe that once people become
familiar with Western medicine they will quickly forget “all that
supernatural nonsense” and turn their backs on the indigenous healer.
Not so.
SOMSOM · Stranger in Our Midst, Furst and Reed
**Medicine
can and will change. It can adapt itself to working with nonmedical
therapists. Both these therapists and their techniques can be adopted
and
used to improve mental health services. The brew can be distilled, with
the supernatant retained and the residue discarded. And this can be
done
despite the hoary traditions of medicine and psychiatry, feet firmly
planted
in the medieval guild systems, voices echoing “You just can’t do that!”
with each footstep down the hall of innovation.**
MGWPMGWP · The Mind Game: Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists, Torrey
medicine:
(n) (Eng) (1) The mastery of the uses of the realms of space/time,
energy and spirit for healing, personal power, divination, and
protection. (2) Shamanic healing. PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere.
medicine
wheel:
(n) (Eng) A name first applied to the Big Horn Medicine Wheel located
on a ridge of Medicine Mountain, part of northern Wyoming’s Big Horn
Range. It is a sacred site built about 200 years ago. BGHBGH · www.crystalinks.com/bighorn.html
The Medicine Wheel is representative of American Indian Spirituality.
The Medicine Wheel symbolizes the individual journey we each must take
to find our own path. Within a medicine wheel are the Four Cardinal
Directions. CHECHE · users.ap.net/~chenae/spirit.html
Medicine wheels are used all over the world (Stonehenge is a medicine
wheel), although the English term comes from Native Americans of the
United States. A Tibetan will call it kalachakra;
a Hindu, mandala;
a Taoist, pa
qua.
All medicine wheels are representations of the universes of space/time
and of energy and spirit. With the exception of the pa
gua,
every medicine wheel represents (at least) the four directions and the
four elements (earth, air, fire, water), with the center representing
the individual. PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere.
menstruation:
(n) The monthly bleeding of human women is so attractive to water
spirits that many native women in the Amazon rain forest will not
travel by boat or even cross the water during this time. There are
beliefs that such spirits will kidnap menstruating women to impregnate
them. AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna
(See,
bufeo colorado, yakuruna.)
mercado
de brujos (Span):
(n) A witches´ market found in many Peruvian towns, ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)
(See,
brujo.)**
