Recently I wrote about the park around the corner from the house. Among other things, I mentioned the stone pillar with words in three langues that say: “the peace prevails in the earth.”

Since then, I have been reading about the background culture of the area (and there is tons of stuff to learn about the area). This region was once part of the Incan empire and the relgion of the Inca still has a presence here. One of the gods I read about was named pachamama, or “mother earth.” A tradition of those who worshiped her was to put a stone bar or pillar in the earth as a way of ensuring a good harvest and fertility. The more fertile the field, the more they felt the goddess had blessed them.

The pillar in the park was of stone, and the quote concerned the earth, the ground, the soil. It was located in a garden. What I thought was a neat saying in the corner of the park has a message under the surface. It seems as though the goddes Pachamama is still being worshiped today…

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