Pachacuti is “A Thousand Year”
Andean societies measured their lives by cosmic cycles called Inti or Sun, each lasting a thousand years. They divided this INTI into two halves of 500 years each, known as Pachacuti or half INTI.
Allegorically, each cycle was identified as either night or day, with one period of light and another of darkness.
Inca Yupanqui Pachacuteq
There was a king in the Inca dynasty, the ninth one. His first name was Yupanqui, and he was the one who came to change his empire.
Upon realizing his important and transcendent mission, he changed his name. He invoked the descent of this force of Pachacuti, and made this power his title.
This man was not just an ordinary man. He was not merely the strategist, military chief, or reorganizer of the empire. Pachacuteq was the ultimate sage, initiated in the most secret arts of the ancient knowledge of the Children of the Sun.
He was the visionary of this new era and the one who inscribed the testimony of his people’s journey in stone.
His message lay dormant through the centuries until Wiracocha, at the beginning of this new time, allowed his light to shine once again in the hearts and minds of those ready to receive it.
In his time, there was much death, hunger, thirst, pestilence, and destruction. For several years, the solar centers did not announce rain; there were many cries and burials of the dead.
But he came to change the world, becoming the Pachacuti, which means “the one who transforms the Earth.”
- Pacha: Totality, world (space), time, earth.
- Kuti: Return, inversion, transformation, comeback.
- Pachacuti: The one who transforms the earth.
The new era
In 1992, “the new era” began for the Andean world. During the June solstice of that year, the Children of the Sun gathered to celebrate the start of a new cycle. It will lead us on this ascending scale to the most remarkable revolution in our history.
At the end of the previous millennium, the Eighth Pachacuti began, marking the Andean people for 500 years—a time of splendor and glory, when our gods watched over us.
This era of the Eighth Pachacuti ended when the barbarians invaded these lands in 1492. It initiated a period of darkness that would last 500 years.
That is, until 1992, the year when the wise and the amutas decided it was time to return and share the ancestral wisdom of their culture with the children of Pachamama.
The time of glory and power of the Eighth Pachacuti gave rise to one of the greatest sages known. In our history, we call him Pachacuteq, the mythical being who embodied the force of Pachacuti.
Our history is being reborn. Do not doubt that each of you is called to contribute your grain of sand to elevate this great mountain toward eternity.
References:
Merejildo, J.A (1997). The awakening of the puma. An initiatory path. Astronomical evidence in the Andes. Chaski. Cusco, Perú.
