{"id":1517,"date":"2013-12-09T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anvisible.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:00:51","slug":"our-despacho-ceremony-to-pachamama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/our-despacho-ceremony-to-pachamama\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Despacho Ceremony to Pachamama"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the last day of November, we had a beautiful Pago a la Tierra or Despacho Ceremony\u00a0 giving our thanks to Pachamama and asking\u00a0 for her continued blessings.\u00a0 The focus of this ceremony was for the successful construction of our house\u00a0 at the Heart of AN. It was a humble ceremony, but very heart felt.<\/p>\n

Present at the ceremony were Emanaku, Solara, Chalo (Overseer of Construction at the Heart of AN), Carlos, Tuanet and their son Mateo, our new architect Jorge and his wife Nuria, Victor (Maestro de Obras) and several of the actual builders of our house and their small sons. The ceremony was conducted by two of the workers and was clean, pure and full of love.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n

Our despacho was prepared with dedication and integrity.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Our beautiful offering to Pachamama is finally ready!<\/p>\n

\"Emanaku<\/p>\n

Emanaku and Solara carry the offering to a deep hole which has been prepared for it in the entry hall of the house.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The despacho, folded into white paper, is carefully placed into the bottom of the hole.<\/p>\n

Then wine and chicha were poured into the hole, followed by flower petals. Afterwards, Emanaku and Solara filled up the hole. Then beaded sancarpas from Apu Ausangate were given as gifts to everyone present. We completed our ceremony with a small feast.<\/p>\n

HERE IS A LINK TO A PHOTO GALLERY OF OUR DESPACHO CEREMONY:<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the last day of November, we had a beautiful Pago a la Tierra or Despacho Ceremony\u00a0 giving our thanks to Pachamama and asking\u00a0 for her continued blessings.\u00a0 The focus of this ceremony was for the successful construction of our house\u00a0 at the Heart of AN. It was a humble ceremony, but very heart felt. [ Read More…. ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvisible.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}