The Spiritual Botany of the Andes: How Ancient Civilizations Tapped Nature to Touch the Divine
For thousands of years, the Andes were a hotbed of spiritual creativity, where people found communion with the god in the very fabric of nature. At the center of this divine connection was Chavín de Huántar, a vast ceremonial site in Peru that flourished 1200–400 BCE, in labyrinthine galleries of stone and monolithic giants, priests ...