There are many lessons offered by the Rural Library Network of Cajamarca; among many of them is the process of knowing, recognizing and feeling the important meaning of the Apus, the sacred mountains, the tutelary hills, the heights of our Andes that give messages of reverence and strength, of religiosity and respect.
Only invading, ignorant, predatory and mercantilist minds had and have the impudence to disrespect and defile the great Apus, full of ‘Gentiles’ and guardians, full of wombs and radiance; plants, springs, paintings, heart and soul. Everything lives and is alive in the Apu, all is surrendered and fortified: everything in the Apu takes us to the root and to the sky, to the depths and to the mystery.
It is not in vain that the library family of the Network constantly makes offerings, through the ceremony All’pata paguikun or offering to the earth, veneration and affection for the Apus, the earth and our deceased.
Because all is life, "the whole world is a sanctuary."
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