2015-10 Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra, the Black Line Initiative, and the Environmental Youth Council, Host From the Heart of the World - The Elder Brothers’ Warning and Aluna.
2015-10-14 Learning from the Kogi Indians of Colombia A thousand years before the rise of the Incan and Aztec empires, the Tayrona, people of the jaguar, lived in a highly developed civilization in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia, South America, and the surrounding Caribbean coast. By 1000 AD an extensive network of stone paths, some up to 15 feet wide, linked the numerous flourishing cities throughout the Sierra. The Kogi are descendants of this impressive culture, having survived by fleeing to the high parts of the Sierra away from contact with the outside world, and thus conserving their ancient knowledge and view of the cosmos. In 1990, the BBC of London sent Alan Ereira to the Sierra Nevada to film a documentary about the Kogi. He had been trying to enter their territory for years. Finally, the Kogi received him and led him into the mountains where they gave him a message to take back to the Younger Brother (they being the Elder Brother). Their message was clear: We must protect the Mother who gives us life. We must respect the planet as a living entity. We must stop disrespecting and polluting our home. If we do not, the Earth will become even more unbalanced—then crops suffer, people go hungry, rivers dry up, life ends. Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra, the Black Line Initiative, and the Environmental Youth Council, three non-profit groups working with the Kogi, will be hosting a presentation of From the Heart of the World - The Elder Brothers’ Warning and its subsequent film Aluna at the Corazon Cinema, 36 Granada St. in downtown St. Augustine on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The Elder Brothers' Warning will begin at 6 pm and Aluna at 7:45 pm with a brief intermission between the two when Felipe Viveros will explain the Black Line Initiative. Food will be available. |