According to a prophecy Andean coca leaf is indigenous to the strength, life is a spiritual food that enables them to make contact with their gods, "Apus, Achachilas Tata Inti Mama Quilla, Pachamama. " While their enemies, coca creates madness and addiction ...
For centuries, coca has been considered a miracle plant endowed with extraordinary virtues. Until Westerners begin to extract the cocaine. The panacea was then transformed in Lethal Weapon. Politico-economic interests have taken over the controversy and penalized the sacred plant, ordering it to disappear.
When the English conquered the Andean societies, they found that coca was grown and attributed to her magical powers. She was intimately linked to religious customs of indigenous peoples. According to legends handed down from generation to generation, Manco Kapac the child "elected" the Sun God, had brought the coca men of the Altiplano . Its leaves were used as offerings to the gods Nature. It is also deposited in the mouth of the deceased so that they receive a better reception in the afterlife. If the use of coca, outside this mystical-religious context, long remained the privilege of the sovereign and Inca nobility, its use became widespread very quickly at the time of the Conquest. The Spaniards did not believe in the virtues of the wondrous plant. They suspected a work of the devil, because the role she played in religious ceremonies of the conquered populations. A board meeting in Lima forbids its consumption because it was considered a pagan custom and a sin. But the Spaniards quickly changed conduct, noting that the natives, they were deprived of coca were no longer in condition to perform the work they required them in the mines. So they decided to distribute the leaves three or four times a day. They also gave short breaks so they chew the "balls" of their precious panacea green leaves. Until today, coca has retained its importance among indigenous peoples, and there are still traces of religious veneration in which it underwent the same time for its healing and nutrition has been scientifically proven.
The natives always carry with them a small bag of coca leaves (called chuspa purse), and a piece of paste made from ashes of plants "llujkta. They mix a handful of leaves with a little ash, and then they chew quietly, in secret a lot of saliva. Once ingested, the juice of the coca mixed with saliva, produces its effects slowly: decreasing of the momentary feeling of hunger, cold, fatigue ... This explains that coca is consumed high levels in people living in very difficult conditions.Coca leaves are also used for "yatiris" (those who know) to do much of their spells and their omens. Throwing coca on a conventional fabric "haguayo" prepared for this purpose, they claim to uncover the thieves and lost objects. (The rest of the article is here )
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