Andean Shamanism
ANDEAN SHAMANISM INITIATORS
By: Carmen R. Castillo Raynold
According with Okulta publication, the Q´eros are the last Incas. They had a population of 600 persons, who sheltered themselves over the 4 hundred meters of altitude in the Peruvian Andean, in order to escape from the Spanish colonizer. During five centuries the Q´ero tribe, had lived practically isolated from the rest of the world. They preserved a sacred prophecy about a great change, or Pachacuti, in which the world will take a turn, reestablishing harmony and order, ending the chaos and disorder.
The publications indicate that the Q´eros were discovered by the anthropologist Oscar Nuñez del Prado in 1949 at the south of Peru. The first occidental expedition to the Q´ero villages was on 1955. In 1959 with the annual celebration in the Andes, miles of persons attended to the Pleiades Return. Between them there were many shamans, who observed astonished how the Q´eros, dressed with the symbol of the Inca Sun, went to the peak of a mountain in order to announce that the prophecy time was near.
A little Q´ero group, including the leader tribe and the shaman chief, visited several cities in the United States in November 1996, in fulfillment of the prophecies. They celebrated a private ceremony in New York City, in the Cathedral Saint John Divine. This shamanic ritual has not been celebrated since 500 years ago in the home of those who symbolize the ancient conquers of their ancestors Inca. They shared their rituals and knowledge with all people who wanted to know their customs, and also with the Cathedral Dean, connecting in this way symbolical and spiritual the America