Tairona - Kogi-Guardians Heart of the World

For those members who are not familiar with this tribe in Columbia, I'd like to introduce you to their beliefs. The following link is a wonderful start to these caretakers of the earth. It is important to know who they are before their lands are systematically destroyed and they cease to continue their wonderful culture. Please check out the link and I will continue to post a brief history of what has been done to their homeland.



http://www.crystalinks.com/kogi.html

The Kogi Of
Columbia Are Being
Exterminated By The US

From WJG Anthony
7-23-5

Dear Jeff, There is a genocidal atrocity underway in Colombia that threatens a highly sophisticated precolombian tribe known as the Kogi.

If you aren't familiar with these people, they are extraordinary, and I urge you to take an interest. The documentary mentioned below is one of the most extraordinary films I've witnessed. Please have a look.

I'm pasting from a thread on the Democratic Underground BB. Links are included for further information included details of how their land has been ruined by the drug irradication poisons.

Thanks and keep up the good work,
Zorbuddha

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Silent US Genocide against the "Heart of the World: Kogi Indians"

My head is EXPLODING! I am so outraged right now at what I have just learned about what has been done to the beautiful Kogi tribe of South America by the MURDEROUS thugs controlling our country.

Let me explain: In the early 90's I saw a documentary called "From the Heart of the World: A Message from the Elder Brothers"

It haunted me for years- a BBC employee made the film. I saw it once and could not stop thinking about it for years. I finally tracked it down, thanks to the net, and corresponded briefly with the man who made the documentary and discovered that I could get a copy.

In short, the message from the Elder Brothers, as the Kogi refer to themselves, was based in CENTURIES of spiritual teaching regarding a mountain which they believe is the heart of the world- the message? When the mountain began to die, so would the world. HELLO? Global warming has fulfilled this warning.

Well, I just went to the Foundation trust site for the Kogi and found this: An Open Letter to the President of the United States: PLEASE READ IT AND FULLY COMPREHEND WHAT HAS HAPPENED. http://www.taironatrust.org /

Like I said, knowing what little I do know about the Kogi, one of the last Indigenous peoples to remain as they have for CENTURIES on the planet, a BEAUTIFUL society living in complete harmony with the planet, my head is exploding. The utter EVIL that the Bu****es are doing on this planet MUST stop. NOW.

About the Kogi: http://www.labyrinthina.com/kogi.htm

"The Kogi know secrets about nature that would make our scientists rethink their ideas on the environment and the universe. They have a presence about them that commands respect. The power of their mind is beyond comprehension. But few people outside of Colombia know who they are and what they represent. Why do they call themselves the Elder Brothers and how can we learn to live in the spiritual world that this lost tribe lives in?

8 years ago I saw an amazing video called "From the Heart of the World, The Elder Brothers Warning." It was about a unique indigenous community that lived in Northern Colombia who say they are keeping the world in balance. I was so impressed with these people because they are still living with the same spiritual values and traditions of their ancestors. But the ecological warning the Kogi shared touched a nerve and made me realize they may be right."

Please consider supporting to the Tairona Foundation- they will send you a copy of the documentary and believe me, it will change your life.

BHN


Open Letter To The President Of The United States

From WJG Anthony
zorbuddha@isp.com

By Paguita
7-23-5

COLOMBIA -- About fumigations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

I work for a French NGO , "Tchendukua" whose goal is to recuperate land for the Kogi Indians living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

In 2000 we bought, La Luna, a land, with access to the sea, It was the first time since the Spanish invasion, the Kogis had a low land. They where so happy, full of hope.

At the end of June 2004, La Luna became an " Indigenous Reserve" , a protected area...

The Sierra is also one of the UNESCO's "Biosphere Reserves".

Fifteen days later, on July 17th, a plane from Dyncorp passed only once to fumigate La Luna. That was enough to provoke a complete disaster. Some days ago, I saw the rushes of a second movie we have made on the Kogis.

Now, La Luna is like some places in Asia after the tsunami... I could not believe it.

The Kogis took five years to regenerate the soil, now they will have to wait, at least, five more years to replant. Everything is contaminated and the streams are dry because there are no more trees to retain water. What are they going to eat? What are they going to drink? Where to go? Tchendukua's director in Santa Marta organized some time ago with the Kogis and the farmers around, the eradication of coca by hand. There was no coca in La Luna.

It is impossible that your sophisticated planes are unable to detect Indians villages.

In the movie there is a scene with a Kogi shaman sitting in front of his house, in the middle of the devastation. He is crying.

This image is unbearable and it will remain in my memory forever. Yes, Mr. Bush, an image can turn people really angry.

Remember the picture of Nick Ut showing a little girl naked, burned by US Napalm, running on a road in Vietnam. This image had an incredible impact in America.

Condolezza Rice wants Colombia to change its laws and spray in National Parks such as La Macarena, El Catatumbo, La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, etc...

To achieve that dirty job, a new aerial base for fumigation planes will be build, $125 million US.

The fumigation of La Luna on July 17th 2004 was completely illegal.

In the Sierra, Kogis, Arsarios-Wiwas, Kankuamos and Arhuacos are starting to have health problems , especially children (see notes-page 14).

In Vietnam, after 45 years, Agent Orange is still active. The new poisoned cocktail is called Agent Green. If you take the ingredients one by one, it doesn't seem so dangerous. If you mix them, highly concentrated, it is a terrible weapon. The mixture is made with Monsanto Round Up Ultra, Cosmoflux 411F (illegal in the US), POEA and the fungus fusarium oxysporum EN-4.

Dr David Sands, an American scientist who made some researches on EN-4 admits (interview with the BBC-2000) that you can call it a Green Warfare or a Biological Warfare.

When you had a few cases of Anthrax in your country it was immediately called a terrorist biological attack...

The Dutch government donated 500.000 euros for the eradication of coca by hand in the Amazonas and the Sierra. A part of this donation is dedicated for substitution cultures and social development.

The Netherlands asked the parks director, Julia Miranda, to confirm whether the decision to fumigate on the protected aeras was definitive, because if it were so, "it could be motive to request the suspension of activities financed by his Embassy".

Mr. Bush, you and your government, you will be responsible for the genocide or ethnocide (see notes-page 10)) of the most ancient and sophisticated precolombian cultures in Colombia.

The proper name for this worthless so-called drugwar is BIOLOGICAL and CHEMICAL WARFARE.

Before writing this, I've asked to a Dr in Molecular Biology if I could use those words, the answer was yes.

Mr. Bush, will you dare to say that you are doing this "In the Name of God"?

Where are the courageous American scientists who helped to stop the fumigations with Agent Orange in Vietnam in 1971?

REQUIEM FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA... AND MANY OTHER PLACES!

Paquita
kogis@wanadoo.fr

NOTES

UNITED NATIONS
Economic and Social Council
Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/2005/88/Add.2 10 November 2004

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-first session Item 15 of the
provisional agenda

INDIGENOUS ISSUES

Human rights and indigenous issues. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen Addendum MISSION TO COLOMBIA*

Page 10

On the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an area visited by the Special Rapporteur, the Kankuamo people (3,000 families, 13,000 people and 12 communities), who live inside the "black line" which marks the traditional boundary of their territory, are now in the process of reclaiming their indigenous identity. Their lands have been recognized, but no reserve has yet been established. Guerrilla groups started arriving in the 1980s and AUC set up a base there in the 1990s, with the result that the number of kidnappings and murders escalated to a level far above the rural and regional average, particularly from 1998 onwards. It was then that the massacres of indigenous people, the mass displacements, the blockades and the forced confinement of communities to their villages began. More than 300 families are reportedly still displaced as a result of attacks and threats of various kinds. The accounts given to the Special Rapporteur testified to the continued ethnic cleansing, genocide and ethnocide of the Kankuamo people despite the protective and precautionary measures requested by the Ombudsman and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and several urgent appeals by a number of special mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights.

Page 14

Indigenous organizations described to the Special Rapporteur the adverse effects of indiscriminate spraying, including environmental damage to the topsoil, fauna, flora and water, the destruction of subsistence crops and direct damage to human health, including birth defects. The Special Rapporteur was also told that there are technical and scientific studies to substantiate these assertions. The indigenous peoples see the aerial spraying of coca plantations as yet another violation of their human rights and, save for a few occasions when they have given their consent, actively oppose the practice; this position again brands them as guerrilla sympathizers, as happened after the rights marches organized by certain indigenous communities to protest against the spraying. The Office of the Ombudsman has received 318 complaints concerning spraying operations in three municipalities in Putumayo in July 2002 and their effect on 6,070 families and 5,034 hectares of land.


http://www.rense.com/general67/kogi.htm

[BROOK]

I saw this show as well.....and it is a disaster of great proportion!
Thank you for sharing the latest of just another change that needs to be stopped

Thank you BROOK, I just wanted to illustrate that the adgenda to systematically poison the planet and wipe out indigenous peoples who are working to harmonize their existence with the planet has been going on for some time. We all have heard about other attempts to wipe out cultures that can teach us what needs to be done, but not enough has been done to expose what has been perpetrated against these peoples under the disguise of the Drug War. They are and always have been what we are all striving to be.

[mntruthseeker]

Thank you so very much................I can't get enough information regarding this...........you have really opened my eyes.

I have to wait until wed to order the information but I can hardly wait.

I actually heard about this through another post on here regarding Drunvalo Melchizedek and I listened to him last night on Conscious Media and I'm so ready for more

I am outraged and furious that this was not reported down to the world and even madder knowing that they sent the letter to the US president through the UN.............what the hell is wrong with these people?

what is wrong with us? So blind My heart is so heavy with sadness and I did order the book today and want to do so much more.

[THE eXchanger]

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Thank you mmtruthseeker and exchanger for your input. A special thanks to exchanger who posted these videos. I have watched them all at one point but with dial-up I'm not able to view them anymore. I searched for some old links to more information on the Kogi's plight and saw that blogs and links were removed from the internet (I guess I'm not surprised at this). I will have more to share as I find it.

[burgundia]

I hope nobody will say now that the biggest threat to this world is The government of North Korea or Iran or Afghanistan or.......

burgundia,

TPTB have hedged their bets and put much effort into alternate demises. It never ceases to amaze me just how well they have planned.

What does surprise me is the agenda on small pockets of indigenous tribes. They must present a huge risk to them somehow. It must be fear of their sense of community, oral history and shamanic abilities. I can't think of any other reason. They must be afraid that they will lead the way for the rest of us. JMHO.

[THE eXchanger]

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[mudra]

Thank you Sleepingnomore for bringing this up .
The Kogi are our elder brothers and sisters. They are very advanced and pure beings.
They deserve great respect .

I am adding them on the healing meditation thread.

Love always
mudra



Text and photographs by Stephen Ferry

If they protect their sacred mountain home, the Indians of northern Colombia believe they will keep the entire planet in balance. It's getting more and more difficult.



Tending the Heritage
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

Frightened away for six months by violence in the area, a Kogi priest, in white pointed hat, returns to his role as spiritual guardian of Teyuna, the remains of a once great Indian city on Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta massif. As men weed the terraces, the priest prays to keep the plants from feeling pain. The Kogi, along with the Wiwa and Arhuaco peoples—all descendants of the earlier Tayrona civilization—have made the Sierra Nevada a stronghold of traditional culture, one centered around the ritual leadership of priests. But just as the Spanish conquest razed the cities of the Tayrona civilization some four centuries ago, the region's native peoples now find their villages and lands threatened by outside forces. Left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, and government troops have brought Colombia's long-running civil conflict into the Sierra Nevada, occupying indigenous land and even forcibly recruiting Indians to their causes


Spiritual Guardian
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

For Wiwa priest Ramón Gil, the rocks, seashells, sand, and water at Los Naranjos beach are a sacred landscape. Believing that the Sierra Nevada is the Heart of the World and crucial to the survival of the planet, the indigenous priests strive to keep all elements of the mountain environment in harmonious balance. Their ancestral territory extends from water's edge to the more than 18,000-foot-high (5,500-meter-high) peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the highest coastal mountain formation in the world. Over the last century, however, Indian leaders have seen a steady loss of their land. The clear-cutting of the forests by farmers, cattle ranchers, and coca growers for the cocaine trade has pushed the indigenous Indians higher and higher up the mountain.



Division of Labor
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

Clad in traditional white tunics, Arhuaco men in the village of Bunkwimake scrape fiber from the leaves of agave cactus. Women spin the fiber into thread and weave it into bags. The men weave the thread into stiff white hats.


Sacred Leaves
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

Arhuaco men tend a log fire for the toasting of coca leaves, a ritual activity reserved for men. While most of Colombia's coca crop is illegally processed into cocaine, Indian men on the Sierra Nevada use the raw leaves, mixed with lime, for symbolic and ritual purposes. For villagers at 14,000 feet (4,300 meters) and higher, chewing the leaves provides an energy boost to aid their high-altitude work.


Syncretic Sounds
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

Arhuaco music flows from an unlikely source—a well-used accordion. A popular instrument in the non-Indian settlements at the base of the mountain, the accordion entered the indigenous communities, photographer Stephen Ferry was told, from German settlers. The lack of electricity and paved roads, together with the protective outlook of Indian priests, have kept most modern influences off the mountain.



All Together
Photograph by Stephen Ferry

A communal kitchen with palm fronds takes shape in the Wiwa village of Gotzheishi. Building remains a collective activity, performed by young men and boys. By working together to preserve their tightly knit communities, and also by organizing politically to buy back land expropriated by settlers, the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada hope to defend their mountain from another conquest by outsiders.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ng...re3/index.html

[mudra]

Tairona Heritage trust

http://tairona.myzen.co.uk/

This is the Home Page of the Tairona Heritage Trust, a small British-based NGO which, since 1990, has been working on behalf of Gonavindua Tairona. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain in the world, and the indigenous groups which live on it - the Kogi, the Arhuaco and the Assario - are the descendants of the Tairona civilization which flourished there at the time of the Spanish Invasion. Gonavindua Tairona is the political organisation founded by the the Mamas (priests) of the three tribes in 1987 in order to represent their interests in the face of increasing Western pressures. The three tribes refer to themselves as ‘The Elder Brothers’, and to Westerners as ‘The Younger Brother’s

The Tairona Heritage Trust is not simply a financial support for the indigenous people of the Sierra. It is also a way of showing them that we are capable of respecting them and their message - and, by extension, life itself. They believe that at the heart of our destructive behaviour is a failure to respect anything beyond our own immediate needs. So the Trust exists as part of the effort to change us, as well as to help them.
Money is only ever sent to Colombia in support of projects explicitly proposed by Gonavindua Tairona, the organisation that represents the Mamas. These projects are for buildings and land-purchase, and whatever is bought becomes the legal property of the indigenous community itself, not of any individual or sub-group.



Love always
mudra