Chachapoya, Waitaha und Kogi
I have always been interested in the history of our earth and especially the ancient cultures.
Several old, lesser-known cultures have aroused my particular interest.
The first is the culture of the Chachapoya. The Chachapoya were a people in South America who emerged out of nowhere in South America 2000 years ago and lived in the Andes for 1500 years. A total of 25,000,000 m3 of material was processed for the construction of your fortress Kuelap. That’s three times the same as the Cheops Pyramid.
Only the Incas subdued the Chachapoya around 1475. At that time, they must have counted about 500,000 people. A large part of the population was deported. 60 years later, the remnants of the people allied themselves with the Spanish conquistadors against the Incas. Due to the diseases brought by the Spanish, they largely died out.
Hans Giffhorn, a university professor of cultural studies at the universities of Göttingen and Hildesheim, has researched the Chachapoya for years and puts forward convincing clues in books (“Wurde Amerika in der Antike entdeckt?: Karthager, Kelten und das Rätsel der Chachapoya”) and documentations convincing indications that these were descended from Celts. Even today, there are in remote villages, “Gringuitos”. That’s what Peruvians today call the Chachapoya descendants, who stand out for their light skin, blonde hair and freckles.
Another culture is that of the Waitaha. The Waitaha were a matriarchal Polynesian culture of peace, which, according to the scientifically unrecognized testimony of today’s Waitaha descendants, arrived in New Zealand long before the Māori immigrations from the Easter Islands.
In 1994, the elders of the Waitaha published their ancient traditions in the book “Song of Waitaha – The Histories of a Nation”. The book is a snippet of the cultural memory of the Waitaha, which had been handed down in their sacred chants, the “chants”. The Waitaha touch me through their peacefulness and closeness to nature.
The book has now also been translated into German.
The third culture is that of the Kogi Indians. The Kogi are an indigenous people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. The Kogi-Indainers have social principles and perspectives on life that can serve as inspiration for all humanity, so revolutionary are they.
I became aware of them about the book by Lucas Buchholz: “Kogi: Wie ein Naturvolk unsere moderne Welt inspiriert”.