2023-12-28 18:25:00
Difficult tomorrow for the new Argentine president Javier Milei but no indication of the name of the future president of the United States: the shamans of Peru have tried to make their traditional predictions for the year to come.
Gathered on Wednesday on a sacred hill in Lima, 14 shamans from across the Andean country scattered coca leaves and flower petals on posters of world leaders, including Mr. Milei, Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and American Presidents Joe Biden, in order to uncover what 2024 has in store for them.
But no prediction has come to announce the name of the future American president, nor whether Mr. Putin will continue his 24 years in power in 2024, and even less the fate of the European elections or in India.
Dressed in colorful traditional outfits, the shamans prayed to the mother goddess Pachamama and the sun god Tayta Inti, banged drums, sang, blew smoke and drank a powerful hallucinogenic brew to aid their divinations.
“We have seen that President Milei will have a very complicated period in government,” shaman Walter Alarcon told AFP. “Milei will end badly. Not governing with the people is bad and will end in a crisis,” added his fellow soothsayer Felix Roldan.
The ultraliberal Javier Milei took office on December 10 with a program of massive deregulation of the Argentine economy.
After waving Palestinian and Israeli flags, Mr. Alarcon said the omens were not good for a quick conclusion to the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that killed about 1,140 people. , mostly civilians.
Israel responded by shelling the Palestinian territory, besieging it, and carrying out a ground operation since October 27 which, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, left 21,320 dead and 55,603 injured.
“The conflict will continue, but it will subside little by little. It will not stop overnight,” Alarcon continued, adding that shamans had prayed for peace in the region.
Last year, they predicted the end of the war in Ukraine by 2023.
The gods were also questioned regarding football, the king sport in Latin America. Shamans say they are planning an Argentina-Uruguay final during the 2024 edition of the Copa America which will be played in the United States.
They did not announce last year that Argentina would become world champions in Qatar.
12/28/2023 18:32:38 – Lima (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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