is true is a lie
Nobody knows.
christ Mapuche lost at sea in May 1960, the plan of machi Collileufu was uncompromising: that the earth stopped shaking and the sea ceased, had to sacrifice a child. The chosen one was 5 years old and fatherless. According to the Mapuche worldview, his death restored the balance between man and nature.
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- Why will punish me! What will I do!
The ordeal of José Luis Painecur began the evening of May 22, 1960. Before that, a rumor out of hell and the earth shook and knocked down trees and shacks, toppling also women and men, as if they were walking on the ground had turned into a senseless tangle, someone decided to unwind from a single blow.
The worst came after: the raging sea spilled on Collileufu, snatching a slap planting potatoes, drowning out the clucking of hens and sculpting in the Mapuche face a mask of fear, the grin left by the earthquake rose to become a permanent rictus. ANCIENT CEREMONY
At some point on that tragic afternoon, above the screams of terror and tears prevailed kultrun the sound of calling an ancient ceremony. Frightened, trembling, the Mapuche of Collileufu ran the most powerful of his ceremonial altars, Cerro La Mesa. There, under a blanket of dark clouds and wrapped in the cold wind of the evening, danced and prayed for that abated the fury of nature. While
waves hit the foot of the hill, threatening to overflow, Juana machi Namuncura received a divine revelation: for the earth and water were still, had to sacrifice a child.
"Bring the grandson of John Painecur" Juana would have required machi, mystical rapture still dam that sealed the fate of a child of five years, "Huachito" the son of Rosa, who had left care his father to go to work as a nanny to Santiago.
grandfather José Luis, Juan Painecur Paineo, hesitated when it came to his hut to demand to hand over the child, but his brother Manuel finally convince him, reminding him that his father so much Sometimes I had said that when it comes a big mess, the sacrifice of one person may be the holiest of the remedies.
The ordeal was made on horseback, galloping with the child in the legs and trying to figure out why their fate.
- Why will punish me! What will I do! - José Luis cried with her weak voice, that despite the fragile Lake Budi resonated as the last sermon of a Christ who had not even reached the age of temptations.
In the ritual of his death there were no nails in his hands, crown of thorns in the forehead and spears on the side. Anchored on an invisible cross, the body of José Luis ended getting lost among waves, because the mandate of the machi was he was released into the sea.
PRISONERS OF "WITCHES"
A Collileufu be reached from Puerto Saavedra, in the Araucania Region, advancing six miles by gravel road, heading to Lake Budi. At the edge of the road, from time to time, you may see a house perched on a hill or sinking their foundations in the valley. At the time of the cataclysm, this route does not exist. There was hardly a track that was difficult to access for vehicles and only up to a stretch of road.
The isolation of living in 1960 the inhabitants of Collileufu, lafkenche community in which adults speak primarily in Mapudungun, explains that the news of the sacrifice take several days to cross the hills and reach the ears of the Chilean authorities.
was a child in a community near Collileufu, with his childlike innocence, who warned about the death of José Luis Painecur, as he relates a chronicle published in June 1960 in the journal Watch.
- peñi Hey, I live there where they stole two horses - would have said little at a Mapuche leader in the community of Nueva Imperial, where the child was hosted. The thieves are Collileufu. These crooks stole our horses to eat in supplication to the little boy was killed and thrown into the sea.
The complaint was soon known by police and Lt. Mario Urrutia not delayed in getting started with their quota towards Collileufu, where they arrested for the crime of killing five people: the machi Juana Namuncura, the boy's grandfather, John Painecur, with John Pain, Julio Cuminao-stepchild of the machi, and Manuel Painecur, uncle of the victim. As a slogan magazine
see, when the military moved to New Imperial detainees, an angry crowd beat them until they were unconscious. Such mistreatment also came from the press at that time treated them "sorcerers" and "witches." ACCUSED
Of the five defendants, only the victim's grandfather and John Pain were prosecuted as perpetrators of the death of the child. The judicial process against him lasted until October 1962, when the judge of New Imperial, Esther Valencia, declared innocent on the grounds that all Mapuche who participated in the killing were acting under the influence of a psychic force irresistible and driven by duress.
making this decision, the magistrate considered the statement of the protagonists and anthropological reports indicated that the sacrifice was made following the ancient traditions of the Mapuche people, and in order to restore balance between man and nature. Juana machi
Namuncura itself and the court explained, as stated in the record of the case: "The disasters are punishment for the sins of the people (...) The animal sacrifices can relieve earthquakes and postpone if offered four years. But now the people's sins are too great to pay with regular sacrifices. " "You must know that for a great evil is used a great choice. Animals were little! Tremor much!" Newspaper reports
It is uncertain how they died José Luis Painecur. The news reports of that time are confused with the stories Collileufu collected by researchers in the social sciences during the last 50 years. Some of these stories say that he was thrown alive into the sea, others that it bled, which dismembered and thrown into the water then wring the heart.
Nor is there consensus on the day it happened sacrifice.
Press placed the fact on 5 June, while the court record was set May 22, hours after the earthquake.
irrefutable
The only certainty is that the body of José Luis never appeared as if the waves cast up to now trying to reach the foot of Cerro La Mesa
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