Madre Tierra ^new^ — Pachamama

"We are not saving the Earth," says Don Miguel, a Kuraka (community leader) in the highlands of La Paz. "The Earth is deciding if she wants to save us. In the old stories, there have been four ages of the world, four Pachakuti (upheavals). The first ended with fire, the second with flood, the third with wind. We are living in the fourth. The question is: will we learn to listen before the fifth?"

When we say , we are acknowledging a "living system" that is simultaneously physical (the soil beneath our feet) and metaphysical (the cosmic order of life and death). pachamama madre tierra