THE GRANDPARENTS

Autor: Marcos Chamorro Guillén


THE GRANDPARENTS:

The Yellow Road to the South ("Nohol").

* The present article is the continuation of another titled: DAWN IN THE INFRAMUNDO.

"Know and do not forget that we, the Procreators, must leave. Know also that we will return at the appointed time. Remember now that together we leave the bosom of the distant mountains that rise beyond where the sun sets. Understand, finally, that the moment has come when we should return to the place from which we started. "

Popol Vuh. Ancient legends of the Quiche. The grandparents.

My name is Marcos, I am an organizer of spiritual retreats and part of the LOV community, eternal scholar of tai chi and passionate about the different spiritual traditions of the world.

Right now, I'm lying in a hammock on the beach of Holbox Island, Yucatan, Mexico. An island in the Caribbean. I can not think of anything I follow the movement of the pelicans, their hunting maneuvers. The frigates, beautiful robber birds, try to snatch the treasure from the food. The shade of the palm trees refreshes me and the dull sound of a freshly fallen coconut, put the iguanas to run wildly.

I have finished uploading the last announcements of retreats in Yucatan to bookyogaretreats.com and two weeks ago I rest here, of so much exploration and adventure. I see sunsets, swimming among colorful fish and whale sharks, in bioluminescent waters of a crystalline emerald color.

I am in Paradise, but something worries me. The magic of the sorcerous Goddess Ixchel * 4 clouds the mind with constant pleasures. Ixchel has a lot of power in these islands, her magic trapped me in Isla Mujeres and she does not let me go.

Something tells me that i have to move, but where, how and why? Will the Goddess let me go? I realize that tonight there will be a full moon, a door opens in heaven, today it is or it will not be.

At that moment Luciano appears, a masseuse friend and he talks to me about an eco village in the jungle. A place that you can only access if you know someone inside and that is full of shamans and magical people. A difficult place to find despite only being a few kms from mass tourist centers. That same morning we decided to go.

We arrived there and entered with effort but fluidly, thanks to the fact that at the entrance to the jungle we met our family in Xibalbá.

The family: The grandfather shaman Oscar and his family. Gaya, an expert in the construction of ecovillages and Luis, who has been helping grandpa in everything for the past two years, nobody knows that jungle like him. We offer ourselves as volunteers in exchange for hospitality, shelter and food. We have no expectations, just help and learn from the experience. They show us the place and the work plan.

That same night on the roof of the fantastic building where we are going to sleep, with the stars and the Moon watching us attentively, the grandfather Oscar, welcomes us with a ceremony in a circle, the little tobacco, in which there is little smoke and share a lot Then he takes us to the tower and shows us the greatness of the Pachamama * 5.

The eyes of the Shaman are deep like Cenotes * 6, and his velvety voice says phrases without meaning for me. Not understanding the grandfather is irrelevant, I have felt his love and he has transmitted to me that while he is with him, he will share with me his knowledge. I do not get over my amazement, at all times he addresses me as "Master". I try to take on this new title without vanity, the first test I did not expect.

The days pass hot, physically hard and really intense. At noon we stopped for a while and purified ourselves in a cenote. The family is expanding, two new volunteers have arrived, Claire and Joana. We spend the nights watching what UFOs look like. Claire is sure they are, me too.

 We have already learned a lot from eco construction. The first days I was lost all the time and at all hours in the jungle, something wonderful, because you are revealed unimaginable places, cenotes, caves, enigmatic sculptures, houses and temples. There in the middle of everything, you feel the most fortunate of the shipwrecked.

Knowing your jungle neighbors is part of the magical process, since you are finding them. A couple of 50-year-old spiritual adventurers have come from Australia. They want to do ceremonies with natural medicine and also know the Mayan shamanism. Tonight we will do a Temazcal ceremony with our new friends.

In my third ceremony of Temazcal, Luis has quoted me before to teach me the preparation of the bonfire, the invocations, permits, and intentions, and finally the placement of the GRANDMOTS * 7; The Grandfather has asked me to serve as assistant at the ceremony. I said: YES. I feel full.

Surely if you have reached this point of the article, you will wonder how my experience as a shaman's assistant will be. Does it require special preparation? and finally, is the Temazcal something more than a simple sauna * 8? You will find the answers in the following article: THE MAGICIANS.

Notes*:

4 * In Mayan mythology Ixchel was the goddess of love, pregnancy, water, textiles, the moon and medicine. She is the wife of the sun god.

5 * The term "pacha mama" is formed by two words of Quechua origin, "pacha" means Universe, world, time, place and "mama", that same, mother. The divine feminine of the Inca Empire gives form to Nature, draws it as a woman, thanks her. She is not a virgin, she self-fertilizes.

6 * A cenote is in a few words a cavern with water and an entrance to the Maya underworld.

7 * Grannies are the volcanic stones that are introduced in the Temazcal, they keep the memory of the planet, the memories of the pachamama, adored in the Mexica pantheon as the Coatlicue Goddess, the snake skirt, the mother earth, fed by the Goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, the one with the jade skirt. Goddess of the living waters, sweet and of the maintenance, responsible for nurturing the world for their subsistence.

8 * Temazcal therapy is based on the fact of causing sweat in our body through medical vapor. Sweating, by itself, already has a high curative value, but also, inhaling the vapor greatly increases the healing capacity of the temazcal. This vapor is produced by the contact of herbal water with red hot stones. Each herb has different medicinal qualities: for example, chamomile helps to cleanse the eyes and restores good digestion; while eucalyptus will help to fight respiratory diseases, etc.

In general this ritual serves to relax, cleanse the skin, purify the body, strengthen the heart, purify the blood, cure many diseases, open the mind, develop perception, find solutions to problems, meditate and also to keep healthy family ties, community and culture.