Kawsak Sacha Proposal of the Kichwa People of Sarayacu and the Bobonaza River Basin.
The nationalities and indigenous peoples of the Amazon are settled in primary forests with a great wealth of biodiversity. These spaces are of vital importance for the life of the planet, so the struggle of the peoples who have lived in these places for centuries to conserve these forests represents a contribution to the planet and to humanity. These living spaces are constantly threatened by large industrial projects. There are bitter experiences in the north of the country that have irreversibly affected other peoples and nationalities.
The State's development plans are only planned for urban centres and families in the communities feel abandoned. The hopes they have for improving their cultural and economic expression are frustrated by the lack of response from the authorities.
Under these circumstances, oil projects that offer the benefits of these economic benefits make many families decline to accept and sell their land. However, this decision, in the long term, only represents their definitive destruction. In these last forty years, these projects have not benefited any of these families, but have only caused severe environmental impact and more poverty.
KAWSAK SACHA
The Amazonian peoples and nationalities have adopted life systems structured around coexistence with nature. Not a simply romantic, scenic or aesthetic relationship, but a true embodiment in their hearts and spirits that gives vital behaviors to each one of us and to the living beings that surround us.
For the indigenous peoples who live in the Amazon, the jungle is life, it is Kawsak Sacha, the Living Jungle. Each space (swamps, mountains, swamps and lagoons) has its masters and owners. In each of these there are Llakta (villages) with populations called Runa, they are also the homes and shelters of animals, such as wild boars, jaguars, anacondas and pumas.
Each mountain and large trees are interconnected by networks
of conduits (in the form of telephone cables), through which the Supay,
(superior beings of the jungle) move in all places of the
Amazanka, Sacharuna, Yashinku, Juktusupay in the jungle.
Amazanka is the lord and master of the jungle, bearer of wisdom, health, beauty, and vital energy. He is the most significant and respected character by all the beings of the jungles and mountains. Together with the Supay, they are the ones who jealously guard the Amazon jungle. From the waterfalls are the entrance doors that communicate with the lagoons and the large rivers, through which the Yakuruna (water beings) and the Yakumama (anaconda) pass to the Amazon River.
In the rivers and lakes, the Yakuruna are the ones who preserve the abundance of ichthyofauna. When the Yakumama abandons its home, the river and the lakes become sterile and orphaned.
Allpamama (mother earth) gives us everything, protects us, feeds us, keeps us warm. The land and the jungle are what give us the energy and breath of life. From them come wisdom, vision, Responsibility, solidarity, commitment, the emotions that keep man together with his people, his family, those he loves and what he hopes for in the future, as a result of his efforts and way of life. In the jungle there are powerful stones with their masters, Supay Rumikuna and an invaluable accumulation of bushes and vines where wealth and biodiversity subsist.
For us, Kawsak Sacha is the space where we elevate our psychological, physical and spiritual emotions, vital to the energy and health of the native peoples. By coming into contact with the world of the masters and lords of the living places, we penetrate the world of wisdom and the sublime worldview of methodical learning.
Everything that makes up the Kawsak Sacha is intertwined. The very life of the Yachak, of our ancestors and of ourselves is involved in the lagoons, in the trees, in the mountains, who connect to give strength and life energy through the transmission of the Muskuy (messages, dreams). These structures are each of the organs of the human being that beat in the depths of the Kawsak Sacha. If these networks are destroyed, the soul dies as does the life of all peoples.
Everything in the world of Kawsak Sacha has energy and symbolizes the human spirit, both for its strength and for its greatness, an inner thought where the soul and life are one with Pachamama and which is part of our formation from the embryo. Feeling in the heart and soul, understanding the language of nature, interpreting what one sees and what one feels, only in this way can Sumak Kawsay be built, as a Memory of Nature.
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