INTI RAYMI 2006
Want to get involved in organizing Inti Raymi ? You are welcome ! Please contact us :
Québec: June 20 (to confirm) Information Ivan (418) 262-531 and Marlene (525-0384)
Ottawa: June 23 (to confirm) Information : Fausto and Susana (613) 747-3933
Montreal:June 24 (to confirm) information: Germán and Martha: (514) 729-9673
Toronto: June 25 (to confirm) Information: Marco and Susana
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In Montreal  Thursday June 23rd and Friday June 24th Angrignon Park (Metro: Angrignon) Informations : Germán (514) 729-9673 Cecilia (514) 343- 6532 no. 44165 Luis (514) 991-1795
The glorious day of the Andes: INTI RAYMI IN MONTREAL
June 23rd and 24th of 2005
Inti Raymi, is the privilegied time of conversation with the HAWA PACHA (world up above), the KAY PACHA (this world), the UKU PACHA (the mysterious underworld) and the CHAYSHUK PACHA (spiritual world of the dead ones).
Our community of Andean Natives living in Canada, organized in the Andean First Nations COuncil (CANO), will effectuate this dialogue with nature’s elements such as Water, Fire, Earth and Sun in Angrignon Park. We will bring our offerings and we will venerate our supreme deities such as our sacred mountains, they will be present trhough our acts, the cosmic powers of the Pachamama will accompany us, with the energy and power of our ancestors who will be celebrating and dancing with us. .
Inspired by our Sacred Andes, we will celebrate this tradition of ours.
PROGRAMA GENERAL DEL INTI RAYMI EN MONTREAL
23 y 24 de Junio 2005
En el parque Angrignon (Métro Angrignon -línea verde)
June 23th of 2005 - ARMAY CHISHI , ritual bath ceremony, energetization, spirit and body purification
18h00 Arrival and concentration.
19h30 RIMANAKUI, Explanation of the ceremony and general informations .
20h00 Dialogue with Water ceremony
20h30 Ritual bath.
21h00 Chicha offering to Allpa Mama and general sharing .
June 24th of 2005 - JATUN PUNLLA, our celebrations sybolise our identity and permanent connexion with PACHA MAMA
The celebrations are times for thanking and to asking.
6h00 Receiving and saluting Tata Inti ( Sun) ceremony
11h00 Delegations arrival and concentration.
12h00 WAKA WAKAYCHIK, opening the altar and offering the Kastillo .
13h00 Offerings and gifts to the PACHAMAMA by the Native families and by general public. Thanking and asking ceremony for the healing of the Earth.
14h00 KUTYCHI Reciprocity and RANDY- RANDY giving the “aumentos” (the double of last years gifts must be returned )
15h00 Community food
16h00 Opening ceremony of the REFLEXION CIRCLE and giving the Sacred Feather to special guests for the continuity.
17h00 Native Music and dances for everybody .
20h00 SACRED SMOKE ceremony and closing of the event KASHNA HUATAPAK.
In Aylmer
 Friday June 24th Conservation Park Sathurday June 25th, Britannia Park,beginning at 4ham Informations: Fausto (613) 747-3933 Marcelo (613) 837 0058 /(613) 324-4861
Inti Raymi is the celebration of the sun, it is the New Solar Year for Indigenous communities along the Andean mountain range. This festival/celebration is mainly held by Quichua Aymaras from the Tawantinsuyu or Pusinsuyu regions (what are today called Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Northern Argentina, some Eastern regions in Chile).
Queschua-Aymara cosmogony revolves around the interplay of two universal forces: male and female, up and below, the sun and his daughters/sons (us human beings). The Inti Raymi (or Jatun Punchay) is meant to symbolize the eternal consecration of marriage between the Sun and his daughters/sons. This celebration also is a conversational process between:
the world up above (Hawa Pacha or Alaj Pacha); this world (Kay Pacha or Aka Pacha); the mysterious world of down below (Uku Pacha or Manqha Pacha); and the spiritual world of the dead ones (Chayshuk Pacha).
The 24th of June Andean peoples everywhere celebrate the winter solstice, that is to say the beginning of the Sun's New Year. According to Western scientific knowledge the solstice begins on June the 21st; however the Pacha Unachaq, which is a sundial used by the Incas, indicates that the sun settles in the same place for some days before June 24th sunrise. And this is the precise day that high priests and Andean nations proclaim as the New Year, the Inti Raymi. Traditionally, the major events takes place in the archeological complex of Sacsayhuamán, or the Sacred House of the Sun. The ceremony is carried out in Quechua by high priests and community leaders
We are quichua-aymara nations wandering all over our Mother Earth. We live in Canada now and on this sister land we have organized ourselves into the Andean Council of First Nations (or Consejo Andino de Naciones Originarias –CANO). We will celebrate the Inti Raymi with Nature’s elements: water, fire, hearth and the sun. We will celebrate the most important celebration in the Andean worldsupported by our sisters/brothers from other nations in the Latin American continent.
The INTI RAYMI is a sacred celebration of life, of the Sun. This celebration is a bridge among indigenous peoples, among people from all other cultures seeking a peaceful and harmonious world, where social justice, respect to our Mother Earth, and recognition of our role of our Mother’s well being guardians (as opposed to proprietors), need to be celebrated.
People from the Andean region, our sisters/brothers from other aboriginal communities from Latin America and First Nations from Canada, as well as individuals and/or groups that recognize our identity and our rights as nations are invited to participate in this event. We open our hearts to all whose intentions are to have a peaceful world where we respect each other, we honour and respect our Mother Earth and we build bridges between our cultures.
Program of activities, Aylmer,
Friday June 24 Conservation Park
06:45 ARMAY TUTA Purification
Saturday June 25 Britannia Park
04:00 SUMAJ PUNCHAY or fire greetings of the Sun, the most important ritualistic part of the celebration.
10:00 WAKA HUAKAYCHIC Opening ceremony of the Altar.
10:30 KASTILLO HUARKUY or hanging the Wakcha Karay (Jatun Punchay Castillo). This symbolizes the prevalence of the sacred Chakana cross. All other offerings from other delegations and invited representatives will be at this time.
11:00 KUTYCHIC Reciprocity: a key notion in Andean cultures, will be the framework of this ritual where everyone shares her/his possessions with her/his sisters/brothers.
11:30 RANDY-RANDY This is the symbolic offering and sharing among participants so that next year this ceremony will be held with even more participants and offerings.
12:00 JATUN PUNLLA The Great Day. The Whipala and the Aya Uma will be brought, offered and displayed as symbols of our continuous struggle. There will be dancing and singing to honour the sun.
13:30 Entrada de la WIPHALA Y EL AYA UMA Dancing and singing festival where all participants will share honouring Father Sun: TATA INTI.
14:00 COLLECTIVE FOOD A communion between our Divinities, Wakas, Runas and the Dead so to assure life’s continuity into the next agricultural cycle.
16:00 SACRED SMOKE (TUKUCHI KUSHINICHIC) With these signals we are asking for positive energies coming from Mother Earth and the Skies.
16:30 CLOSING OF CEREMONY A New Year has begun and we will all be new human beings, feeling the warmth of peace in our hearts.
See pictures of 2004 Inti Raymi event
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