I am the original source of all life
Goddess Pachamama
Leading the way through See All This #38 are six divine figures – goddesses from various eras and cultures. Artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña, who has devoted her life to reviving the ancestral indigenous wisdom of her homeland Chile, wrote a poem dedicated to Pachamama, the Andean Earth Mother.
‘I am earth, I am life.
From my clay first came man.
From me came woman and came love.
Came the tree, came the spring.
Comes the fruit and comes the flower.
I am the original source of all life.
I am the ground that connects with your house.
I am the roofing tile of your home.
The steadfast pit of your well.
I am the generous ear of corn of your cattle
and calm certainty to your effort.
I am the reason of your life.’
– From: Cora Coralina, ‘Song of the Earth’ (O Cântico da Terra), Poemas dos Becos de Goiás e Estórias Mais, edited by José Olympio, 1965
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