Icaros, the Magical Chants of the Ayahuasca Shamans

I remember one nighttime clip Ayahuasca ceremony, held in a little glade in the Amazon rainforest. It was a beautiful clear night, there was no moon, and the sky was filled with 100s of one thousands of glistening stars; just looking up at the sky made my caput swim. We were surrounded by trees and bushes, but could only recognize their forms and silhouettes. It felt as if I was in nature's aboriginal theatre. When I had drank the Ayahuasca, the priest-doctor started to chant his Icaros, and within a few minutes, there was the song of birds, fire beetles flitting everywhere, the jungle around us was responding to the chants of the shaman. It was an keen experience, and the followers day, when I discussed the gap experience, with the birds and insects appearing when he sang the first Icaro, he replied, "the first chant was to summons and inquire the birds, and the insects for their protection".

There are respective different sorts of icaros, at the beginning of the session. Their intent is to arouse the mareacion or effects, and, in the words of Javier, 'to render the head susceptible for visions to penetrate, then the drapes can open up for the start of the theatre'. Other Icaros phone call the spirit of Ayahuasca to open up visions 'as though exposing the eye nervus to light'. Alternatively, if the visions are too strong, the same spirit can be made to wing away in order to convey the individual back to normality.

There are icaros for calling the 'doctors', or works spirits, for healing, while other icaros name animate being spirits, which protect and quit patients of spells. Healing icaros may be for specific statuses like 'manchare' which a kid may endure when it acquires a fright. The spirit of a kid is not so fixed in its organic structure as that of an adult, therefore a little autumn can easily do it to fly. Manchare is a common ground for taking children to Ayahuasca sessions.

The humanistic discipline of the Shipibo, especially textile designs, are closely related to Ayahuasca icaros. The words of the chants are symbolical narratives telling of the ability of nature to mend itself. For illustration the crystalline Waters from a watercourse wash, cleanse, and purify a individual who is unwell, while coloured flowers pull the hummingbirds whose delicate wings fan healing energies etc. You might see such as things in your visions but the kernel or core which remedies you is perhaps more than likely to be the apprehension of what is happening in your life. These deep penetrations let your interior feelings to unblock so that resentment and choler can change to rapture and love. To awaken from the 'illusion of being alive' is to undergo life itself.

The Icaros show the emotional chemical bond between the shamen to the human race of nature, and the Negro spiritual powerfulnesses of the rainforest. The Following Icaro ' Icaro Madre Naturaleza', demoes this human relationship between adult male and nature.

English Translation by Simon Peter Cloudsley.

Don't go forth me, don't go forth me

My female parent nature

Don't go forth me, don't go forth me

My female parent nature

For if you will go forth me

I would decease or of the pain

My crying of desperation

My female parent nature

Yes you have got got the gift of life

Sacred purification in you hands

Blessed female parent nature

Don't go forth me don't go forth me

My female parent nature

Don't go forth me, don't go forth me

My female parent nature

For if you will go forth me

I would decease or of the pain

Tears of desperation

The achromatic head covering that your you have

As it covers this child

Clean my organic structure and spirit

With the breath or of your lips

Dearest miraculous Mother.

Don't go forth me, don't go forth me

My female parent nature

Don't go forth me, don't go forth me

My female parent nature

For if you will go forth me

I will decease of the sorrow

My crying of desperation

In the mounts or upper jungle

Where you give me peace and prosperity

Without declination neither bitterness

Dearest pure Mother

Don't go forth me , don't go forth me

My female parent nature

Don't go forth me , don't go forth me

My female parent nature

For if you will go forth me

I would decease or of the pain

My crying of desperation

Where you Take a bath with the plants

Blessed Child set onto me

Your crown of health

Eternally in my heart

In Spanish.

No me dejes no me dejes
Madre mia naturaleza
No me dejes no me dejes
Madre mia naturaleza
Por que vessel iodine titanium me dejares
Moriria O de lanthanums penas
Llantos yttrium desesperaciones
Madre mia naturaleza
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Santa purificacion en titanium manos
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Madre mia naturaleza
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Madre mia naturaleza
Por que vessel iodine titanium me dejares
Moriria O de lanthanums penas
Llantos yttrium desesperaciones
Elevation velo blanco que tu tienes
Como cubre a esta criatura
Limpia myocardial infarction cuerpo yttrium espirutu
Con elevation soplo O de tus labios
Madre cita milagrosa

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Madre mia naturaleza
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Madre mia naturaleza
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Moriria O de lanthanums penas
Llantos yttrium desesperaciones
En lanthanums altas O montanas
Donde cornpone paz yttrium prosperaciones
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Madre cita lanthanum pura

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Madre mia naturaleza
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Madre mia naturaleza
Por que vessel iodine titanium me dejares
Moriria O de lanthanums penas
Llantos yttrium desesperaciones
Donde Banas con lanthanums plantas
Obendita criatura ponme ya
Lanthanum aureole de la sanidad
Muy ageless en myocardial infarction Corazon