Refugio de Santiago a Refugio de Santiago - b
Refugio de Santiago - c

The God Pariacaca
Gentleman of the sun, rains and the fertility, also gentleman of the natural pastures, the wild fruits and the wild animals. The cult of the snowed one of Pariacaca belongs to the religion of prehistoric man with 12,000 years of antiquity, in the river basin of the Cañete river.

The mythical bicephalous mountain of Pariacaca, 5570 and 5724 meters snm, gives direct origin to five rivers, Cañete, Rimac, Mala, Lurin and Mantaro. Its presence controls the climate in the surrounding valleys.

During many different centuries groups fed with religious fervor for the east magnetic center, rendering cultured to the primitive Gods of America; in these mountains there is archaeological evidence of hidden mysterious caves under the snow that is testimony of old initiation rites pertaining to the the mountain.

Remakably, a program of world-wide scientific cooperation has determined the existence of a natural source of cosmic energy in a strip similar to a ring that surrounds the Earth within one hundred kilometers of the surface. This concentrated energy of the cosmos is sent to the planet by way of spurts through some of the prominent mountains, those that have the mark that distinguish the place like asylum that helps the spiritual evolution of the man.

At 10 in the morning of the 27 of April of 1610, the parents Francisco de Avila, Olmedo and Fabian de Ayala at the head of two hundred laborers destroyed the ancestral altar of the mythical Pariacaca, in a culminating act of the destruction, one undertaken by the extirpadores of idolatries of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Today all that is left are the stairs of 1800 steps, inlaid in one of the peaks of the world, constructed by the faith of million believers during thousands of years. Its height is equivalent to a building of one hundred floors, this done of thousands of stone blocks and in some sections the steps get to be four meters wide. At the base of the stairs is Cuchimachay where there are cave paintings representing camelidaes of about ten thousand years of antiquity.

In the days of the Andean civilization it was an important way in that starting off from the Jatunjauja (jauja), the portable altar of the Pariacaca be united with the sanctuary of Pachacamac; today an ecoturística route by the Peruvians, like that old travelling one, look to collectivly and unconsciously wake up the cosmic emanations to activate its own centers of energy. The pilgrimage to the mountain of the Pariacaca is in addition to being a spiritual venture, a connection with the source.

Paullo, 15 of August of 2003