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daño: (n) Witchcraft. AYV Damage, loss, hurt, harm. CSE
Dark Cloud Constellations: (Eng) See, Pachatira, Yana Phuyu and Mayu.
datura: (n) A plant in the Nightshade Family. It contains tropane alkaloids that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. The active ingredients are atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics. Due to extremely high risk of overdose, many deaths and hospitalizations are reported from recreational use. WIKI (See, toé.)
Daytime Sun: (n) (Eng) The sun as it passed across the sky from sunrise to sunset was worshiped by the Llacuaz lineage ayllu of Cajatambo. MAN (See, Huarochirí Manuscript, Nighttime Sun.)
desgracia (Span): (n) Disgrace, misfortune. PSL
despacho (Span): (n) A ceremonial offering composed of a wide variety of elements, each with its own symbolic meaning. The elements are intricately arranged on white paper, infused with sami, bundled up and burned. Despachos are commonly used to attain ayni and set things right (cuti). Shamans use them also to feed their connections to the sacred. KOAK The traditional Andean offering of thanks or supplication sent to the Nature Spirits. Despachos can contain up to 200 different ingredients and are made in a ceremony performed by Andean Priests. This offering is traditionally burned, buried, or sunk in a lake or other body of water depending on the meaning and purpose of the offering. Haywarisqa is the Quechua term for the despacho. NND Unlike the Q’ero, who do not watch the despacho burn [Pachamama is consuming the offering and it is considered to be rude], the Kollahuaya watch the burning until it is complete. IGMP (See, Appendix J.)
An unwrapped despacho to Pachamama. IGMP
Devil's Doorway(Eng): See, Gateway of Aramu Muru.
diet (Eng): (n) The literal translation of the Spanish term dieta. It refers to shamanic apprenticeship training as it is done in the Amazon. It is much more than just a "diet." Along with the implicit food restrictions (no salt, sugar, spices, oils, fats, alcohol, stimulants, pork meat -- and in some cases no chicken or red meat too ), there are other specific conditions to respect, among which two are very important: sexual abstinence and physical seclusion. The alterated state of consciousness needed to access the plant spirit world is achieved by these restrictions while being alone in the forest with the shaman/teacher. That is the traditional way. During the period of the diet, the apprentice must also refrain from entering in contact with menstruating women, at any level (including having his/her clothes touched/washed by, or having his/her food prepared by a lady in this condition). Traditionally, it is only the shaman who should attend the apprentice during the time of his/her diet, and should bring/prepare food. EMM
Diosa huayuthuayunocathaa (AYM): (v) To call to God for help (sp). ASD
Diosana camachita aropa (AYM): (n) Law of God (sp). ASD
Diosman kutiriy: (v) Literally, return to God. To repent (sp). PSL
Diosmanta mañakuy: Literally, to ask of God. (n) Prayer. (v) To pray (sp). PSL
Diospa atiynin: (n) Literally, God's power (sp). Priesthood. PSL
Diospagarasunki: (phrase) Literally, God will repay you. Thank you (sp). PSL
Diospagaray: (v) To thank (sp). PSL
dismemberment (Eng.): (n) The candidate will gain shamanic powers during a visionary experience in which he or she undergoes some form of death or personal destruction and disintegration at the hands of divine beings, followed by a corresponding resurrection or reintegration that purges and gives a qualitatively different life to the initiate. WMYS A common motif in shamanic initiation in several parts of the world: the neophyte undergoes a symbolic death and resurrection by being dismembered and then restored to a higher physical and psychical condition. AYV
A vegetalista experiencing
dismemberment. AYV
divination (Eng): The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. DRC The calparicu used a bewildering variety of techniques to predict the future. Charcoal fire ashes, cobwebs, dreams, scrying the inflated lungs of sacrificial animals, casting lots with ears of maize, beans or pebbles, the movement of giant spiders kept in tightly lidded jars, or even the flow of saliva spat into the palm of the hand. IAWE
Diyus: (n) God (sp). QP
Diyus kaynin: (n) Deity (sp). QP
Diyuspa wasin: (n) Church (sp). QP
doctora (Span): (n) Another term for shaman. EMM
dog (Eng): (n) The guardian of and the only creature allowed to accompany the vegetalista while he is gathering and preparing his psychotropic brew. The dog keeps away other animals, humans and malevolent spirits. The dog can see spiritually better than its master and can warn him. Some Amazon tribes give ayahuasca or datura to the dog to enhance its powers. AYV
double (Eng): (n) An aspect of your psyche that exists outside of space/time in symbolic form. The double becomes real for you when you live your unconscious process, get around doubts and hesitations, take responsibility and live what you perceive and experience, regardless of what others might think. TSB (See, jaguar, shapeshift.) Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when [the self] realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. TOP The dreaming body, sometimes called the double or the other, because it is a perfect replica of the dreamer 's body, is inherently the energy of a luminous being, a whitish, phantomlike emanation, which is projected by the fixation of the second attention into a three-dimensional image of the body. TEG (See, nagual.)
Dreamtime (Eng.): (n) [Originally a construct of the Australian first people, the Aborigine.] During the world-creating epoch called the Dreaming, the Ancestors moved across a barren, undifferentiated field. [See, Appendix I.] The Ancestors, traveled, hunted, made camp, fought and loved, and in so doing they shaped a featureless field into a topographical landscape. Before their travels, they would sleep and dream the adventures and episodes of the following day. In this manner, moving from dreams to action, the Ancestors created the world and its creatures. These things were created simultaneously and each could transform into any of the others. Transformations occurred as the adventures of the Dreamtime stories required. Everything was created from the same source -- the dreaming and doings of the Ancestors. There is a universal and psychic consciousness to every living thing and to the earth and primary elements, forces, and principles. Each component of creation acts out of dreams, desires, attractions, and repulsions. Therefore, the entrance into the larger world of space, time, and universal energies and fields is the same as the entrance into the inner world of consciousness and dreaming. The exploration of the vast universe and a knowledge of the meaning of creation is experienced through an internal and external knowledge of self. VTFD
duktur: (n) Doctor (sp). QP