The Sierra Nevada of northern Colombia, is the world’s highest coastal mountain and ancestral home to our elder brothers the Kogi, Arhuaco. Wiwa and Kankuamo nations. These communities hold in balance our relation to the earth and it elementals. For centuries they have quietly carried on their traditions in the sanctuary of the Sierra, maintaining minimal contact with city dwelling communities. Similarly the paths to their high mountain communities have been closed to outsiders.

     In more recent years however the Mamos and Sagas of the Sierra have begun to travel and encourage their youth to attend college. They have also begun to open certain paths to their high mountain communities to allow for visitors. The Mamos and Sagas recognize that  humanity is now prepared to listen, prepared to act and to transform in a way that until now had been unprecedented.  For them it has come time to share and bring to light the knowledge and work of rebuilding correct relationship with ourselves and the earth. If we are eager to learn, our spiritual elders are willing to teach. For this we must visit the sacred sites to pay homage and visit and sit with our elders to hear the oral traditions before its too late.