Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon - Stephan Beyer "Feather" - Shows how Dragonfly

- Shows how Dragonfly

or on the heart for anointing

we may get the feeling of swimming in the cosmic ocean of infinite possibilities

Medicine wheel design on bottom of handle is the maker's signature

This stone features the carvings of Mama Ocllo

Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon - Stephan Beyer "Feather" - Shows how DragonflyIn the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages, their houses perched on stilts on the shores of the rivers that are their primary means of travel. Here in the jungle, they have retained features of the Hispanic tradition, including a folk Catholicism and