Pachamama lives in Peru
Pachamama is the Earth Mother Goddess of the Andes of South America. The Ancient Mothers called me to manifest an exhibition titled Pachamama & the Goddesses of the World at Machu Picchu, April 24-May 1,1999.
It all began when I found Kathy Doore and Labyrinthina on the Internet. She was sponsoring a Goddess Gathering at Machu Picchu and dreamed of the banners flying there. We both worked hard at making the dream a reality.
My process is to search in archaeology, art, textiles, clay, stone, anthropology, sacred symbols and myth. Beginning with the early Chavin culture of Peru, I collected feminine images spanning 3,000 years. Knowledge of goddess symbols and a good eye help to unearth the stories. Once I find an image, I draw or make a plate. The next step is to design an icon spirit banner incorporating the image with background patterns which are based on the thousands of years of textile traditions in Peru.
The banners flew at Machu Picchu for the first full moon of Wesack. The exhibition was sponsored by the Peruvian Department of Culture. A group of fifty women did sacred ceremonies with sixty banners hanging from the Inka stones in the space called the Citadel. The feminine divine goddess energies of the Andes were sent around the world.
Pachamama's many names are Saramama--Goddess of Corn, Kuchimilco--Goddess of Transformation, Venus de Fria, Erotica Mama, and Inka Venus. Peruvian Goddesses share the same aspects as their sisters in other cultures around the world: fertility, food, serpents, rainbows, nurturing, birth, death, rebirth and transformation. Some of the images are fierce. Some are beautiful. Some focus on visionary states. All are powerful.
