Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru by Wilcox Joan Parisi

Author:Wilcox, Joan Parisi [Wilcox, Joan Parisi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear & Company
Published: 2011-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

“The souls of the bad are sent back,” don Julian explained, “and the souls of the good are allowed to pass through the door.”

Obviously, we had not established that the door leads to the hanaq pacha. Juan Núñez del Prado explained the indigenous, although Catholicized belief that “if Saint Gabriel does not permit the dead person to pass, he or she must return to their tomb. Saint Gabriel is the messenger between this world and the next, and on All Saints Day, Peruvians pray to him to open the door for all their dead loved ones.”

Don Julian explained further. “When these dead return because of their mistakes, they return to their tombs. They spend much time there. These souls, they are vagabond souls. They are beings who scurry around and scare you. They are wanderers.”

Don Agustín added to don Julian’s explanation, seemingly surprised that we did not know this information. “When these vagabond spirits are rejected by Saint Gabriel, their relatives must ask the help of a good paqo, who must make the person acceptable to Saint Gabriel. To do this, the paqo calls the soul and at the same time calls Saint Gabriel, and the paqo implores, ‘Accept him! Pardon him!’ If the paqo is powerful, Saint Gabriel will accept that soul.”

“What about a paqo?” Juan wondered aloud. “Can he pass easily?”

“The paqo, like any other person, leaves relatives behind,” don Julian explained. “When a paqo dies, his relatives must arrange for another paqo to do the same work for this paqo as he would do for any other person—make offerings to the apus and call to Saint Gabriel to accept the soul of the paqo.”

What about those souls who become wanderers? I wondered. What happens to them? I finally asked Juan, and he explained that these vagabond souls wander around on Earth, and if you accidentally meet one you can catch a sickness, called uraña, caused by fright and the shock to your nervous system. The disease takes the form of an ill wind, and you can be well one minute and deathly ill the next.

Don Mariano provided further information. “Some kinds of winds are the vagabond spirits’ voices. If they infect you, you get uraña and die. Some people have the capacity to identify a vagabond spirit. If someone identifies a vagabond spirit, he must call the owners of the soul [the deceased person’s relatives] and tell them that their soul is doing this. Then they must do the work with Saint Gabriel to change the situation.”

As fascinating as our discussion was, time was growing short and I wanted to move on to gather information about the kay pacha and ukhu pacha. But Juan had several more “little” questions: “The people in the volcano, are they happy? Sad? How is the way of life inside the volcano? Is this the final destination for souls?”

The Q’ero agreed that “there in the volcano the souls do not suffer—because they have their houses. Each soul has its own house.”

“Only the souls who are recent arrivals suffer,” said don Agustín, “because they don’t have a house.

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