The Grand Spiral of Huaca Montegrande
With Dr. Quirino Olivera
Saturday 25 October 2025
8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours

With deep reverence for the ancient wisdom held in the land, Shamans Directory warmly invites you to join an exciting live transmission from Huaca Montegrande, in the upper region of the Peruvian Amazon. Coordinated by Shamans Directory Team Member Cynthia Honores, Dr. Quirino Olivera, Peruvian lead archeologist and director of Huaca Montegrande, will be speaking to us directly from the site, with translation and additional transmission made by biologist and sacred ecologist, Karen Gordon.

Huaca Montegrande, the oldest ceremonial temple in pre-Columbian America, is a living testament to the birth of spirituality in the Amazon. Shaped as a woman in sacred embrace, giving birth to a spiral, the temple mirrors the universal rhythm of transformation, continuity, and creation. Its stones carry stories of balance, between river and mountain, feminine and masculine, earth and sky.

Here, archaeologists have uncovered possibly the world’s oldest ceremonial cacao, a fruit that “not only nourished, but also united worlds.” We invite you to join us in honoring this sacred site, where science and spirit meet, a place that remembers the origins of prayer, offering, and communion with life itself. Come listen, learn, and receive from the Great Spiral of Montegrande, a song of cacao, memory, and awakening.

This event is FREE and all are welcome.
No preregistration is required.

Watch the replay here

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