Random Post: Mapuche Culture

I've been interested about mapuche culture, because i think that it's important to remember where we are living. Long time ago this land and the most part of Chile was inhabited of our root culture.

The Mapuche culture is very rich in every meaning, they developed they own calendar based on his studies of astrology. They practice the medicine using herbs administrated by the machi, (who could be man or woman) kind of priest that know and preserve the knowledge of their ancestors. There are different ceremonies according to the purpose, for example the Nguillatun that is for claim for rain or the Machitun that is for cure a person. Personally I have been the experience of being in a Nguillatun when I was a kid and a I got drunk with mudai… just kidding.

The social organization is distributed in communities that are under the order of a Lonko, that is the person that make the important decisions.

Well, I had experiences that  I described, because my mother worked in a foundation that help communities and farmer families to improve their own products.