Above Banner Photo - "Venus de Fria" surrounded by Inka stepped temple energy fields, the beautiful Venus de Fria celebrates the duality of Life with her powerful eyes, hands, and pubic triangle. Source: Mochica Gold Idol 400-800 CE. Background Textile: Nasca/Wari, tie-dyed textile 500-800 CE.



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Left - "Chavin Saramama" The Great Mother of the Chavin Culture is a Saramama, corn mother, holding sprouting staffs of food and serpentine amaru snake energies. She is fierce and powerful. South Coastal Karwa textile 500 BCE, Ica Vally Textile.

Right - "Cuchimilco Mama" Chancay Mama raises her arms and hands, energy emanates from her eyes and crowned head. A cuchimilco, her clay body is a vessel for regeneration, her vulva pubic triantgle shows the origin of life. Chan Chan ceramic 1200 CE, Chimu/Sipan patters from litter 750-1250 CE

Left - "Pachamama" The Earth Mother creatirix of Peru, she is a machukuna, and ancient being; she holds corn the food of Life. per-Columbian stone, Inca textile worn for outstanding bravery.

Right - "Black Madonna of the Andes" standing on the moon and her sacred stones, the Black Madonna of the Andes is surrounded by a k'uychi rainbow aura of Light. Her crown is a golden stepped gateway of wisdom and compassion. Source: Moche clay 500-800 CE.







Left - "Inca Venus" holding spirals of energy in her hands, Inka Venus is using her inner vision. The Inka cumbi textile in the background was woven by priestesses in the acclahuasi, house of the chosen women. Source: Gold 1500 CE. Background: Sapa Inca cumbi textile 1500 CE.

Right - "Mama Huaca" means sacred stone mother. The Inka creation myth centers on four couples who emerge from a cave near Cusco. Mama Huaca is the partner of a male trickster who was rowdy and cruel. When the people decided he must return to the cave, they sought Mama Huaca’s help as she was forceful and bellicose. She tricked her partner back to the cave where he remains today. Mama Huaca was both clever and wise. She planted the first field in the Cusco valley. After she died, people made chicha (fermented corn beer) every year in her honor. Mama Huaca sits on a throne under a sacred parasol with one hand in a bowl of water, the source of life. She holds a mirror in her left hand acknowledging her power.




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In the footfalls of their ancient sisters, the "Incan Priestesses of the Sun," a gathering of awakened dedicated women sojourn to the mystical land of the Apu, the land of Pachamama - the Great Goddess. For the first time in nearly 500 years her image flows freely from the ancient terraced stone walls of the lost city - Machu Picchu, just as it had during the previous epoch, the reign of Pachamama. Read Lydia's personal adventure with the Goddesses in Machupicchu!




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