Feliz Dia de Pachamama. What are you doing for the Earth today?
Today in the Andes there's a traditional fiesta, Dia de Pachamama, Mother Earth Day. What are you offering up to benefit Mother Earth (besides ojas de coca y un poco de pisco).
Anyway, I was searching for a good web reference on the topic, and I googled this incredible bit of wing-nut propaganda, a real blend of 16th century Spanish Inquisition, God, and the paranoidest wing of the Wingnut Party:
Pachamama Wants Your Children
http://s119074.gridserver.com/articles/2011/05/05/io-78-pachamama-wants-your-children/
.... Bolivia is perhaps the first example of a Marxist state that is religiously, occultically pagan. Is Bolivia a picture of our global future–a spiritual, nature-worshiping collectivist state, where Caesar is Lord? Will ecology be the “power shift” (Van Jones’s words to 10,000 young climate activists—to thunderous applause!) that joins pagan spirituality to coercive politics? An earth-worshiping “green agenda” will open the minds and souls of our youth to the iron grip of Pachamama. As Mary Poppins knew, “Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down!” Our urgent task is to teach our young people to worship the Creator, not Mother Earth. ....
The scary part, there are people who believe this dribble!
What to do for the earth? The best thing i can think of is to educate everyone about taking care of the earth. The earth has rights too, at least in Bolivia, and those rights include continuity of life for more organisms than just humans. Given the example above, part of the task entails engendering respect for other cultures, by both promoting understanding and calling out irrational demonization as the idiocy it is. Perhaps one way to promote some respect for traditional Andean culture is by promoting the festival of Mother Earth Day, a day when people show their recognition of the importance of life on the earth to human existence and the day they strive to offer something back to the earth for providing us with life. Feliz Dia de Pachamama.
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