by Talia Shafir It’s a delicious irony that the people believed to be the last of the ancient Incas, culturally preserved in the purity of their high Andean refuge until 1949, are the bearers of the universal message to leave the past behind, drop our differences and change our relationship to time. Having escaped the marauding conquistadors, the Q’ero Elders have spent the last 500 years guarding a sacred prophecy of “pachacuti”, taken from the name of an ancient Incan ruler meaning ‘he who transforms the world’. “Pachacuti” heralds a world of union and possibilities, of harmony and natural order, signaling the end of chaos and disarray. The last one took place 500 years ago. The Q’ero await the next one which they say is […] Read More