From the Heart of the World, The Elder Brothers' Warning - The Kogi Message to Humanity

A remnant population of the Tairona civilization survived the Spanish genocide high in the coastal mountains of Columbia. As our elder brothers, they know more about how to live properly on this planet in a complex society than, by all the evidence in front of their faces, we Younger Brothers, and they are willing to share if we will listen. Imagine a pyramid standing alone by the sea. Each side a hundred miles long. It’s a mountain, nearly four miles high. In its folds, imagine every different climate on earth. This is the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The people hidden here call the Sierra the Heart of the World. And themselves the Elder Brothers. A Kogi teacher explained, "The Great Mother created the world in water. She makes the future in it. This is how she speaks to us. We look after nature. We are the mámas and do this here. And we mámas see that you are killing it by what you do. We can no longer repair the world. You must. You are uprooting the earth. And we are divining to