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Ayahuasca Chayana - The Arrival of Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca chayana means the arrival of ayahuasca, and refers to the onset of visions when spirits come to orchestrate the mystical setting of the ceremony. They are seen here emerging from the earthenware pot with chacruna leaves.

Dressed in brilliant vests made of scales like armour, they shield the maestros from the malignant chants and darts of sorcerers. The puma machacos (snakes with the skin of a jaguar) emit rainbow coloured arkanas which encircle the ayahuasca ceremony and deflect any sorcery.

Recognized as one of the world’s great visionary artists, Pablo Amaringo was renowned for his intricate, colorful paintings inspired by his shamanic visions. A master communicator of the ayahuasca experience--where snakes, jaguars, subterranean beings, celestial palaces, aliens, and spacecraft all converge--Amaringo’s art presents a doorway to the transcendent worlds of ayahuasca intended for contemplation, meditation, and inspiration. Pablo Amaringo (1938-2009) trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but retired in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko Ayar school in Pucullpa, Peru. The author of Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman...