At Chacruna: Coronavirus Brings Back Memories

Luis Miguel Modino

We had no doctors or nurses to take care of us. But we were watched over constantly by our sage grandparents who performed protective ceremonies using white pitch incense to fumigate the environment, the people, and their pets. Every day the sages smoked their cigars and talked about what they had seen in their dreams, what protective prayers they had composed in their nighttime meditations, and each sage presented a solution... continue reading.