<h1>Shipibo-Conibos Caption: Cumancaya the people flying through the air</h1>

The Shipibo identify sacred place in the upper Ucayali Cumancaya as the place where their ancestors emerged to repopulate the world, which for them is the fourth world. So Cumancaya is considered the first Shipibo people, the center of the universe and place "of the cosmic tree" ... . Archaeologists who have investigated Cumancaya found quantities of broken pots. Suggest that they are d.C. 1300 The Shipibo say there is much more pottery in the bottom of the car, but to touch it would bring bad luck. The place in the lower Ucayali Canchahuaya is another sacred place. The excavations have revealed ancient pottery there too abundant.

In the village of Cumancaya grew enchanted tree. The leaves have moved without a breath of wind, when the sun shines with full force blew the fruits of the tree, and the seeds fell into the water of the inlet below the tree where GAMITO (a fish) is the ate. Soon the fish began to fly like birds. People were amazed, "surely God has given medicine to fly" Suddenly if we spray all around, the whole town could fly to the sky-world to thank God. Then they took the leaves of the tree and pulled the juice. Spray the liquid on all boundaries of the village. 'Let's see what will happen' people said and fell asleep.

The whole town woke up leaning it began to rise. I continue the slow climb until the entire village was flying through the air but did not reach the world-sky as expected. And from above, down to earth with a loud noise in the lower Ucayali, shaping the Canchahuaya hill. They fell so hard that all pottery was broken in pieces.

'Digging the earth are thousands of broken pottery,' say the Shipibo, 'but not touch them because they are enchanted. Quechua-speaking settlers called the place of descent. Canchahuaya, since they can not pronounce our language. We call Quenchaya Manan, the hill of pottery vessels' Shipibo believe that when the people of cumancaya coat to stop Canchahuaya laughed down, left an enormous hole is now a car full of broken ceramics. From the symbolic point of view, the Magic Tree is genipa, which gave the man all he needed.


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