Payment to Pacha Mama
The payment to the land is a frequent activity in the Andes due to its cosmogonic and human importance, the ceremony consists of different activities subject to a protocol where the Shaman must connect with the greatest knowledge and ancestral wisdom to approach the Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) and the Apus (gods) and thus transmit the ancient Peruvians developed a close relationship with the nature of respect, fear and worship where men and animals depended exclusively on what the land produced and provided, which led to the need to express his veneration of the Earth as a source of life. The religion of the Andean world is based on ancestral rites that link man with his habitat. For the Andean worldview, the Inti or Sun God, was one of the most important gods, the Apus constituted the spirits that lived in the tutelary mountains and Mother Earth (Pachamama) was the goddess of fertility.
Mother Earth gives us all the support and everything we need. Then we thank you offering, with sacred offerings.
. In the logic of Andean reciprocity, payments (or pagapus) are the way to thank the spirits associated with natural forces, the benefits granted to them. The offerings that are buried in Mother Earth include coca leaves (for the Andean worldview they are the mediators between nature and the human being), variety of cereal seeds, unworked silver, sullus (fetuses of llamas or sheep), chicha , wine, animal fat, sweets and huairuros (red seeds energy to the four cardinal points. In this difficult time we live, the payment to the land is a bridge of transmission of our prayers and requests for everything we need for our well-being , health, work, abundance and prosperity towards the divine light.
This ceremony is directed by a shaman. He is physically and spiritually ready to do it. This ceremony was carried out in accordance with the needs of the Andean man, when natural disasters, disease outbreaks or when planting and harvesting work begins, also to begin to realize some important event; It was carried out in important places like Wacas, Pacarinas and Apus, which are important places where there is a great concentration of pure energy connecting with divinity. The ceremony takes place in: Amaru, Pachatusan, Temple of the Moon, Quillarumiyoc, Ausangate and Salcantay.
