Boivia's gradual return to Traditional Religion:

For those who are not aware, Bolivia is a small country located in South america. The total population consists of: 55% pureblooded Amerindian Tribals, namely from the 2 main tribes: Quechua and Aymara, and a few Chiquitano's and Guaranis. the rest[b] 30 %[/b] is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European), and around 15% are whites.

After colonisation by the Spanish, the Native Indian tribals were virtually terrorized for the past 300 years under colonial rule and they wer forced to abandon most of their traditional cultur and religion. many were enslaved and forced to intermarry with the whites, thus reducing their numbers. many also died due to lack of immunity against diseases such as smallpox, etc. brought by the colonizers. Now, just around 55 % are Native Indians.


However things are starting to change. With the election of President Evo Morales as the first ever Native-Indian tribal from the Aymara tribe as President, prospects seem to be looking brighter. One of his first steps on coming to power was the establishment of the de-colonizing ministry whose purpose is to gradually erradicate colonial remnants of the past and to do away with christianity and other such foreign elements.

President Evo Morales of the Aymara Tribe:



Last year, he de-recognised christianity as the state religion (which came as a serious blow to the mestizos and the eruopeans) and he then went on to separate affairs of the state, from the church. He aims to empower the indigenious peoples who are the majority and who have been opressed for centuries by the mixed-race mestizos and europeans.

Also he organized a mass wedding for native Aymara Indians who could not  afford marriage and this wedding was conducted in the traditional way, with Pagan Shamans (lyk our Babalawos) who took the role of priests. Many christians also got married in the Pagan way and many have already abandoned christianity after under going realisation.

A total of 354 couples got married at once at a coliseum in La Paz, Bolivia, with President Evo Morales playing the role of best man, officials said.

Saturday's mass marriage event, called "Marriage From Our Collective Identity" and organized by the Ministry of Decolonization, was conducted according to the Andean region's aymara native traditions, El Diario reported.

After the wedding, people took to the streets with bows and flowers.

Decolonization Minister Felix Cardenas, alluding to the Catholic Church that has been the predominant religion in Bolivia since the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, said the wedding event is part of a cultural shift in the country.

"The Spanish have brought ,  customs which for years have been rooted in our country but now we reassess our customs, our traditions," he said. "It is time to create independence so we are instituting a multinational country."

The Rev. Carmelo Galdozo of the San Francisco Cathedral in La Paz said the aymara wedding was dangerous to the progress of the catholic church and he also stated that this form of religious syncretism, combining Paganism with christianity is the work of Satan.  He was obviously jealous and feared his catholic church would finally come to an end. 

The President celebrating the AYmara Winter Solistice in respect to the Sun God:

Announcement by Patzi:

In June 2006 Minister Felix Patzi (a sociologist of Aymara Indian descent who practices "a pre-Colombian religion that worships the earth goddess" brought organizational opposition against the Morales governments' ideas when he declared that "Catholicism would no longer be ‘the official’ religion taught at schools."Patzi’s said that he wanted to end “the religious monopoly” of the Catholic faith in schools and allow all faith to be taught “from oriental religions to those practiced by our native peoples.” He said he would end the policy that makes Catholic religious classes obligatory for students, and called the existing system “colonial”. In an interview with the newspaper La Razon, Patzi said, “In Bolivia the people are not only Catholic, but also of other religious faiths.” He stated his fear of the issue “leading to confrontation among Bolivians”.

After protests by the Catholic hierarchy Patzi clarified that the sectarian Roman Catholic classes taught in state schools would be replaced with a "history of religions" class that would include a focus on traditional indigenous beliefs alongside Catholicism and other faiths practiced in Bolivia. Patzi said that “Catholicism would no longer be the ‘official religion’ of the country’s educational system.” The Morales government’s announced its policy as a call for “secular education that respects the beliefs, the spirituality of indigenous and native nations and of the Bolivian nations as the basis of individual and communitarian rights.” It was announced that the proposal would come before the National Assembly for a vote on August 6, 2006

mass Aymara wedding with Pagan priests:


Tribal priests/Shamans:




A happily married couple:

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The Religious Tribalism of Evo Morales:

On February 2, 2009, the new Constitution of Bolivia went into effect. On that day President Evo Morales proclaimed “the birth of the Socialist and Anti-Imperialist Republic” of Bolivia.

The constitution, inspired by a Marxist Tribalism, was approved by 60% of the voters in a referendum made on January 25, 2009. Its preamble promotes the return to the Indian cults of pagan religions that existed in Bolivia previous to the discovery of America. It states:

“Since time immemorial, our mountains stood and our rivers flowed and formed our lakes. Our Amazon, our Chaco (wildlife reserve in southeastern Bolivia), our Altiplano (mountains with active volcanoes) and landscapes were covered with greenery and flora. We peopled that sacred Mother Earth with different faces and we understood the plurality of all things, beings and cultures.

"Thus our peoples lived together, never experiencing racism until we began to suffer it in those ill-fated colonial times … By a mandate of our people and with the strength of our Pachamama [Mother Earth] and God, we declare the re-foundation of Bolivia.”

These words spread an anti-Spanish phobia, which is an anti-Christian phobia. After Morales’ inauguration in 2006, the newspaper Los Tiempos of Cochabamba wrote:

“Evo Morales received the political power of the nation with a spectacular display of religious rituals related to Pachamama (Mother Earth), the gods Inti and Achachilas and all the divinities of the native religion in the times of Collasuyo [an Inca territory south of Bolivia]. He honored Mother Earth for receiving its fruits, the sun and the high mountains for their rays and riches, and the creeks that fertilize his beloved and venerated Earth.

“The government palace became the stage for those Andean religious rituals. The performers appeared to be more Aymara Indian priests than government authorities. The government of Morales made a syncretism between the native Indian and the Catholic religions. On one day, he was the witch doctor of the milluchadas (Indian rituals to call the spirits from the dead); on another day he was leading prayers to the saints in Catholic churches.” (Los Tiempos, June 20, 2006)

Since the Catholic Hierarchy had opposed the new text of the constitution, Morales attacked the Bolivian Church at the World Social Forum held in Belém, Brazil, from January 27 to February 1, 2009. Indeed, he declared:

“There are new enemies in Bolivia. They are not just the rightist-oriented press but also groups in the Catholic Church, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church who are enemies of our peaceful reforms. … I want to tell you that just as we shout, ’Another world is possible,’ so also we will say, ‘Another faith, another religion, another church is also possible.’” (Los Tiempos, January, 30, 2009)

As he spoke these words, Morales was applauded by presidents Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) of Brazil, Rafael Corrêa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and Hugo Chaves of Venezuela. Leonard Boff, advocate of Liberation Theology, was also present.

In their critique of the Constitution - which soon later would be approved - the Bishops warned that the text “does not recognize the deep reality of the Bolivian people, who in the great majority profess the Catholic Faith. It also ignores the historical, cultural and social importance of the Catholic Church … in forming the national identity and development.

“The part that affirms that ‘the State is independent of Religion’ (art 4) contradicts another part further down that affirms: ’The State will adopt the original native Indian cultures, which hold the deposit of [our] spiritualities and conception of the world” (art. 98). This latter text suggests the interpretation that the State will adopt only those early native Indian spiritualities.”

Further, the Bishops accuse the proposed Constitution of “not recognizing the right to life from the moment of the conception” (art. 15 § 1).

President-elect Evo Morales in a pagan ritual:





Morales officiating at the Pagan Indian rituals:




[size=14pt]EVA MORALES SPEAKING LIKE A TRUE PAGAN TRIBAL AND A SON OF THE SOIL[/size]:

Evo Morales’ proposal:

The idea of having an international Mother Earth Day was proposed by Evo Morales, the Marxist President of Bolivia. He delivered a speech to the U.N. suggesting that as the 20th century had been called "the century of human rights," the 21st should be known as "the century of the rights of Mother Earth and all living beings.”

“To live in harmony with nature”, he continued, “we should acknowledge that human beings are not the only ones who have rights, but the planet, animals, plants and other living beings also have rights that we should respect”

You may laugh at Mr. Morales’ philosophical slip affirming that the planet has a life. Anyone who had studied basic biology knows that the earth or a planet is inanimate, and, therefore, does not have life in itself. Some may simply dismiss Morales as an ignorant Indian. I would be a little more cautious. We will see that others - more educated than Mr. Morales - expounded similar theories based on presuppositions that admit an immanent life even to minerals.

Then Morales started to speak about “Mother Earth” as if it were a person: “The U.N. has the duty to make people respect the rights of Mother Earth … Our 192 governments face the challenge of making a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth” (ibid).

Next, he suggested four specific points for his charter for ecological rights. I summarize his arguments, keeping their internal order: 1. Every ecosystem, animal or vegetal species, each glacier, river or lake, has the right to exist and cannot be destroyed by any irresponsible human behavior;

2. Since the resources of the earth are not unlimited, “Mother Earth” has the “right” to the regeneration of the planet’s bio-capacity;

3. Rivers, fish, animals, trees and the earth itself – just like men – have the right to live in a healthy atmosphere free of poisons and toxic waste;

4. The earth itself as an entity has the “right” to live in harmony with all the species that exist on it.
Morales ended his proposal with a communist tirade: “Until now, we human beings have been prisoners of the forces of Capitalism, which considers man as the paradigm of the planet. The hour has come to acknowledge that the Earth does not belong to us; rather we belong to it. Our duty is to safeguard the rights not only of the human beings, but also of Mother Earth and all living beings” (ibid).

Translating this into social-political language, it means that the UN should implicitly declare itself the proprietor of every single natural resource on earth, over and beyond any individual or national right. In this way it can administer justice to “Mother Earth” and all living creatures, including inanimate beings.

Once this power is conferred to the UN, the next step is to institute an international court to judge “crimes” against ecology, and to establish an international militia for enforcing its decisions. Another possibility - more in keeping with what we know about Morales’ methods - would be to establish “committees of public safety” to keep watch over the “capitalists” who are spoiling the earth, water, air, etc., accuse and judge them for their “crimes” against “Mother Earth,” and apply the sentences.

He has spoken the Pagans speak: Humans in their false pride, have gone too far, but little do they realise that they are bringing about their own destruction. Animals and humans, we are all equal in the eyes of God. 

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