The Fifth Pachakuti

The Fifth Pachakuti

Meditating seated on the main temple or temple Mayor of Machu Picchu within the “Sacred Plaza” in 1988

When the Eagle of the North flies with the Condor of the South, the spirit of the land will re-awaken. – Inca prophecy.”

This is the time of prophecy of The Fifth Pachakuti (Peruvian Fifth Sun), which ushers in a new level of consciousness for humanity.

Pachakuti, a Quechua word, literally translates to mean the return of time, change, or disturbance. This prophecy therefore speaks of a period of upheaval and cosmic transformation. It signifies a reversal of the world, an overturning of the space/time continuum, and foretells of a grand cataclysmic event.

Pacha, being a span of 500 years, is a traditional way that the Inca read time. The time of the first arrival of the Spanish to the Americas coincided with one Pachakuti. It’s said that this era recently came to an end with the arrival of another Pachakuti, this time leading way to set the world right-side up and to return to a golden era. It’s said that the Andean people and their native historical culture will see a resurgence and rise out of the previous period of conquest and oppression and begin to thrive and return to a period of grandeur.

New Way of Thinking

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

The Pachakuti also speaks of the tumultuous nature of our current world, in particular, the environmental destruction of the earth, transforming and returning to one of balance, harmony, and sustainability. This will happen as people change their ways of thinking and become more conscious. Therefore, the Pachakuti is representative of the death of an old way of thinking about the world in which we live and the awakening to a new consciousness. In this way, we can describe ourselves not as who we are or were, but who we are becoming.

The prophecy says that we are passing into a new age of transformation

When the Spanish came to the lands of Inca, the Inca were in midst of one of their chaos periods. It was a time of transition time from one era to another, from the rule of one god to another, from one set of values to another. Numerous Andean messianic movements of the past 450 years have been based on the belief that this period of chaos would come to end and bring about a new order established by Viracocha.  

Viracocha also spelled Huiracocha or Wiraqoca

Creator deity originally worshiped by the pre-Inca inhabitants of Peru and later assimilated into the Inca pantheon. He was believed to have created the sun and moon on Lake Titicaca. According to tradition, after forming the rest of the heavens and the earth, Viracocha wandered through the world teaching men the arts of civilization. At Manta (Ecuador) he walked westward across the Pacific, promising to return one day. He was sometimes represented as an old man wearing a beard (a symbol of water gods) and a long robe and carrying a staff.

The cult of Viracocha is extremely ancient, and it is possible that he is the weeping god sculptured in the megalithic ruins at Tiwanaku, near Lake Titicaca. He probably entered the Inca pantheon at a relatively late date, possibly under the emperor Viracocha (died c. 1438), who took the god’s name.   

Quetzalcóatl was called by the Maya Kukulkán, Gucumatz in Guatemala, and was Viracocha to the Incas.

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For the Great Change to be complete, the dominator culture, competitive legacy of Bronze Age warriors and Middle Eastern shepherd’s mentality needs to give way to a green philosophy, equality, cooperation and partnership, acceptance of change, world vision of unity/oneness, intuition, flexibility, and direct experience.