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By Agence France-Presse
Monday, November 5, 2012 19:36 EST
LIMA Using maracas, coca leaves and a hallucinogenic brew, shamans in Peru got down to business Monday using pre-Columbian traditional ceremonies to pick a winner in the US presidential race.
The apus (gods of the hills in indigenous mythology) tell us (Barack) Obama will be reelected, predicted Juan Osco, known as the Shaman of the Andes on San Cristobal hill overlooking Lima.
Members of the group placed flower petals on photos of the candidates that were also swept over with tobacco smoke. The shamans chewed coca leaves, a traditional ceremonial and medicinal plant since Inca times that helps fight altitude sickness.
And the crew took some swigs of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used widely among Amazon basin indigenous people. At least one thing was clear, they said: Obama should defeat Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The ayahuasceros have spoken, it's finished.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)KNR
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Shamans can't be wrong!
Cha
(297,318 posts)the American Voting Machines!
Turborama
(22,109 posts)How are you doing today?
Cha
(297,318 posts)I haven't even voted yet.. it's 10:29am in Hawai'i and I'm voting after I run.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)Seriously, I do.
Bozita
(26,955 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I have heard from a Japanese Shinto Priest.. Kamisama onegaishimasu!!
Namaste.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Why not?
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)The other was typing.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)very good.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Yahay is the Peruvian drug that they took. It can show former life times and predictions of the future, or so they say ...
Turborama
(22,109 posts)If so, it'd be interesting if they saw donkeys at some point during their trip.
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)December 21, 2012...is the end of the Mayan calendar. End of an age and beginning of a new age of enlightment. Obama's the only one who could take us into the Age of Aquarius properly. (Peace and understanding and all that.)
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)It was more powerful than LSD
I did throw up ...... when I saw Mitt Romney eaten by a serpent.
I felt better after that.
Cool Post.... thanks