Amazonia Sur: Antonia, la yuca, la siembra y su familia

Knowledge will never be obtained for free

One must suffer in order to achieve something

My father woke us up at 3 am

to cook Wayusa

and then we had to heat the chicha

in a new clay pot

Then we had to go to the canoe to pick up the fish

that my father had caught to cook for breakfast

And before sunrise, we had already

eaten breakfast and were ready to go to work

My father had a lot of plots of land

so it was not necessary that the women work much

On my father's land, there was many different types of fruit,

palm, small oranges, sapodilla fruit,

Now it surprises me that many single women are not like that

Many hide so that they won't have to obey their parents

Potato seed, manllupa, banana, mani and lumu seeds

There are different kinds of cassava

We only harvest on Saturdays

We don't harvest on Friday because

it is a day of bad energy

When one harvests cassava on Fridays

it does not grow, it dies

and it does not provide a good harvest

Other families have the tradition

of singing before harvesting

although in my family we did not sing

We had to harvest a large quantity

of cassava seeds

Lumu wiwilan, lumu kanua, wira yuyu

pukaklla, wira yuyu, maki panga,

papaya panga, awispa panga

all mixed with achiote, a mokawa of water

and there we placed the sacred stones

We prepared this the day before

so that in the next day

we soaked the leaves in that water

so that we could bathe the cassava seeds

together with the achiote

later one must take care of what one ate

nothing spicy, nothing salty

so that the harvest does not spoil

and if possible one must sleep

without bathing or without moving

The next day one would bathe at 5 am

because the cassava is part of us

If we also bathed, the cassava

would also absorb the water and grow vigorously

If everyone had that knowledge

they would be true masters

I don't know what the (children) learn these days

maybe in school they teach other things

that aren't so important

The knowledge of our grandparents is our wealth

Say no to oil

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