Pachamama Madre Tierra Site

She is not a resource to be managed. She is a person to be related to.

The ritual is called Pago a la Tierra (Payment to the Earth). On the first of August—the start of the agricultural cycle in the southern hemisphere—entire communities gather. They dig a small hole, a mouth for the Mother. Into it, they place offerings: ch'uspas (small bags of fat), chancaca (unrefined sugar), seashells from a coast they may never see, and coca leaves blessed by a shaman. Wine is poured. The earth drinks. pachamama madre tierra

I do. I hold the green, vein-ribbed leaves to my lips, and I whisper: "Pachamama, Mother, let my feet be light." She is not a resource to be managed

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