The music: medicine and origin
The Kogi Wiwa people cannot imagine a day without music. Music is their essence.
Why? Because it is their direct link to the spiritual world from which they originate. It is also the instrument through which they communicate with the eternal spiritual beings who are their guides.
For the Kogi Wiwa, there is a place called Aluna or Sikun. From there, they were sent to their home, Earth. There reside beings connected to Mother Earth who care for its spiritual foundations.
Every element, every being (living or inanimate) has its foundation, its roots, its base, its code, in that world.
When our world was formed, it first took shape in thought. These beings, guardian spirits of each element, imagined the world, down to the last detail of everything that would exist.
When they had conceived everything that should be on Earth, the final phase arrived. All beings sang. They sang and played. The music materialized the world. Each being, each element, had its own song. Each spirit sang hundreds and thousands of songs so that everything in the world could materialize.
Thus the world was created.
And today, Indigenous peoples possess the codes of each element.
With music, they heal the elements of nature. Everything is frequency and vibration. Their songs heal unbalanced, damaged energies.
They say they heal the illnesses of plants, animals, fire, and the earth… Without music and dance, they cannot conceive of life.
We are alive because we sing and dance. In this way, we maintain the balance of everything and every being.
From Aluna Sé, Sintana and Mother Nameuan organized the 18 basic thoughts so that everything could function in the material world and all could be cared for. Seukukui and Mother Kwan created the birds and taught them music so that the birds could sing to the food, the air, and the elements of nature. The birds fulfill the Law of Origin. They have times when they sing and times when they meditate.
Humanity forgot this music of origin, although it still exists in places (perhaps among tribes of native peoples in Africa, Australia, or Asia). With these songs and this music, we sing to the flowers, the plants, the animals, the insects, the sun, the sea, the stars, the thunder, the rain—to everything that exists. In this way, we balance and heal the three energies of the elements, we heal the water, and we reduce natural disasters and crop failures. This music is irreplaceable; from it emanates the energy that unites everything. A musician is a spiritual guide. All the basic elements came with music. Serankua and Saineken completed the process of establishing the law of all the basic elements.
Aluna Sé told them, "Make it tangible and communicate how everything must be cared for." Serankua and Saineken called upon Bunkuasé and Kuažiuman so that everything would materialize. But it could not materialize. They searched among Zhatkua, Kasitkua, Kuina, and Ruama and saw that they needed music. Because through music, everything would be healed and purified. Even the smallest insect had to have music to cure the food it consumes. They called upon Abu Ruabisama and sought out Jate Matuna to sing the music, to play a code for caring for the trees, the stones, sex, and the seed. Everything had to have music. Abu Ruabisama sang all this music, and thus everything materialized. Aluna said, "You will not forget the music that comes together with the Law of Sé, with the Law of creation. If you forget that Law, that fulfillment, your territory will be nothing. You will not care for anything."