Cusco, Living Culture
Qosqo is an ancient city founded by Manco Capac and shaped by Incas like Pachacutec. It endures into the 21st century, continuing the rules of its powerful past.
This incomparable city still lives under the early breath of the cold mountain mist. It continues to measure its time with the rise and set of the Inti (Sun).
Cusco lives its own life, and its destiny is intrinsically linked to ours. We all owe it our attention. We must ensure its survival and take an active interest in how it’s treated. From urban development to landscape, as well as in its reconstruction and restoration.
Principles of Andean People
Mother Earth is the one who gives life to man, she is the supreme divinity in our world.
Pachamama taught us to love everything unconditionally. She showed us that work is a great virtue, because by loving everyone and building with our work, we become wise.
Pachamama gave us these life teachings for our understanding; she gave us:
Rules of MUNAY (love)
Man does not need other laws or commandments, because LOVE makes us aware of the service that should always be the essence of the being
Rules of LLANKAY (work)
Since service is the consciousness of reciprocity or WORK.
Rules of YACHAY (wisdom)
Be sure that love and work will lead us to the higher consciousness of knowledge or WISDOM.
In our history these three laws appeard: “AMA SUA”, “AMA LLULLA”, “AMA QUELLA”. “Do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy.”
But, what reason would we have to teach a high society like the Andean one to “not steal,” if this society knows that everything belongs to Pachamama?
If this society lives by the communal principle of “all for one, and one for all,” if this society lives by the principle of service—”today for you, tomorrow for me”—what need is there to steal in a society where the child born will have their own land to work?
Why steal in a society where the possibility of dying from hunger was neither allowed nor imaginable, because food distribution and preservation were organized in an unexpected way?
We know that Mother Pachamama is the mother of purification, of cleanliness, and perhaps of forgiveness.
We have begun a new era, and in this era of light, all brothers and sisters are welcome.
Let us allow Wiracocha to touch our inner sun, so that love with consciousness may blossom, and we may become the people of the new time.
References:
- Merejildo, J.A (1997). The awakening of the puma. An initiatory path. Astronomical evidence in the Andes. Chaski. Cusco, Perú.
