The
Ayahuasca-Alien Connection
Excerpts from "Ayahuasca Visions: The
Religious Iconography
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ABOUT THE VISIONS
Some Important Iconographical Motifs
Spaceships
The spaceship motif has an important place
in Pablo's
visions. As we
saw earlier, when the curandera who cured his
sister
gave him ayahuasca, Pablo saw a huge flying saucer
making
a tremendous noise that made him panic (Vision 7).
Don
Manuel Amaringo, Pablo's older brother, has a similar
story. He told me - with tears in his eyes - that the main
icaro
he employed to cure many people he learned from a
fairy
called Altos Cielos Nieves Tenebrosas, who came in a
blue
spaceship:
She asked me: "Do you want
to listen to my song?"
She sang and that song I have
always kept in my heart.
In spite of the frequency with
which Pablo depicts
spaceships,
he is sparse in his commentary about them. Pablo
says
that these vehicles may take many shapes, are able to
attain
infinite speed, and can travel underwater or under
the
earth. The beings travelling in them are like spirits,
having
bodies more subtle than ours, appearing and
disappearing
at will. They belong to advanced
extraterrestrial
civilizations that live in perfect harmony.
Great Amerindian civilizations
like the Maya, Tiahuanaco,
and
Inca had contact with these beings. Pablo says that he
saw in
his journeys with ayahuasca that the Maya knew about
this
brew, and that they left for other worlds at some point
in
their history, but are about to return to this planet. In
fact he
says that some of the flying saucers seen by people
today are piloted
by Maya wise men.[48]
[footnote
#48] A similar idea has been reported by German
anthropologist
Angelika Gebhart-Sayer. In 1981 while doing
fieldwork
in Caimito, a small Shipibo settlement by the
Ucayali River, her indian
friends were worried about strange
light
phenomena they had witnessed for months, and which
they
interpreted as a new tactic of white people to
penetrate
their tribal territories. When they approached the
lights
they disappeared. On several occasions Gebhart-Sayer
herself
saw soundless yellowish lights about the size of a
football,
moving about 400 meters away, and about one meter
above
the ground. She could not find any logical
explaination
for what she saw. Jose Santos, the shaman,
calmed
the people, explaining that in an ayahuasca vision he
understood
what it was: a golden airplane with big lamps and
beautifully
decorated seats. "The pilot, a distinguished
Inca, steps out. Sometimes he
wears the modern clothes of
white
people, sometimes a precious Inca cushma {traditional
men's
garment}. We bow to each other, but don't speak,
because
we know each other's thoughts. Then he withdraws.
The time has not yet arrived for
him to speak. The Incas
want to
ally themselves with us, so as to defeat the white
and
mestizo, and establish a great empire in which we will
live
our traditional life, and will possess both the
commodities
of the Incas and the white. The time will come
soon in
which he will bring presents and give guidance.
(Gebhart-Sayer 1987:141-2)
Finnish historian Martti
Parssinen kindly indicated to me a
text
written by Father Francisco de San Jose on a phenomenon
the
missionary witnessed at the confluence of the Pozuzo and
Ucayali rivers on August 8,
1767. Father Francisco and other
missionaries
had been surrounded at night by a group of
hostile
Conibos, who were shooting their arrows at them,
which
they answered with gunfire. He writes:
We were in the midst of
this battle when something
happened
well worth remembering. We saw, as much
Christians as gentiles, a globe of
light brighter
than
the moon that flew over the lines of the
Conibos and lighted the
while field. I don't know
whether
the Indians saw any mystery in the event,
but
I only know they abandoned their arrows...
(San Jose 1767:364)
[end]
Extraterrestrials are in contact
with the nina-runas (fire
people)
that live in the interior of volcanoes. They
communicate
telepathically with each other. Under the
effects
of ayahuasca one can see these beings and their
vehicles,
but few vegetalistas actually have contact with
them,
only chosen ones, to whom extraterrestrials teach
power
songs and give useful information to help cure their
patients.
French anthropologist Francoise
Barbira-Freedman, who did
extensive
work among the Lamista of San Martin province,
told me
that among her shaman informants spaceship sightings
in
ayahuasca were common. When I visited Don Manuel Shuna,
Pablo's uncle, a vegetalista
more than 90 years old, I
showed
his several photographs of Pablo's paintings.
Pointing to the flying saucer in
one of the photographs he
told me
with excitement, almost with stress, that the last
two
years he had been haunted by people coming out of
machines
like that. He said that these people fly standing
slightly
above the surface of the water. Don Manuel
describes
their machines as being about 50 meters long, with
lights
that make the night as bright as the day. When at
rest
they never touch the ground or the water, but remain
suspended
in the air. Sometimes the beings on board these
machines
knock down and take whole trees with them. Don
Manuel said:
They know when I am taking
ayahuasca. They come
and
sing all sorts of songs, and the icaros I
sing.
They also know how to pray. They want to be
friends
with me, becuase there are things these
people
don't know. They want to take me with them,
but
I don't want to go because these people eat
each
other. They tried to frighten me by moving
the
earth, or felling large trees. They almost
made
me crazy. But they no longer come close
because
I blew tobacco on them.
It is of course very difficult
to know what to make of this
kind of
report. It seems that shamans are constantly
appropriating
symbolically whatever innovations they see or
hear
about, using them in their visions as vivid metaphors
to further
explore the spirit realms, to increase their
knowledge,
or to defend themselves from supernatural attack.
Shipibo shamans receive books in
which they can read the
condition
of patients, have spirit pharmacies, or travel on
airplanes
covered with meaningful geometric designs to the
bottom
of lakes to recover the caya (soul) of their patients
(Gebhart-Sayer 1985:168,172;1986:205;1987:240); Canelos
Quichua receive from the spirits
X-ray machines, blood
pressure
apparatuses, stethoscopes, and large bright
surgical
lights (Whitten 1985:147); an acculturated Campa
shaman
uses in his healing songs radio frequencies to
communicate
with water spirits (Chevalier 1982:352-3); Shuar
shamans,
who acquire from various plants, animals, stones,
or
other objects magical arrows (tsentsak) to cure or defend
themselves, also
get them from a witrur (from Spanish
vitrola,
phonograph) (Pellizzaro 1976:23,249); Don Alejandro
Vazquez, a vegetalista living in
Iquitos, told me that
besides
angels with swords and soldiers with guns, he has a
jet
fighter which he uses when he is attacked by strong
sorcerers
(Luna 1986:93; see also Pellizzaro 1976:47); Don
Fidel Mosombite, an ayahuasquero
of Pucallpa, told me that
in his visions he was
given magical keys, so that he was
able to
drive beautiful cars and airplanes of many kinds.
Flying is one of the most common
themes of shamanism
anywhere.
The shaman may transform himself into a bird,
insect,
or a winged being, or be taken by an animal or being
into
other realms. Contemporary shamans sometimes use
metaphors
based on modern innovations to express the idea of
flying.
Thus it is not strange that the UFO motif, which is
part of
modern imagery - perhaps, as proposed by Jung
(1959), even an archetypal
expression of our times - is used
by
shamans as a device for spiritual transportation into
other
worlds. The flying saucers, extraterrestrial beings,
and
intergalactic civilizations that appear in Pablo's
paintings
should not necessarily be considered unusual or
extraneous
to Amazonian shamanism; they may be
manifestations
of old motifs. Descriptions of shamanic
journeys
under the influence of ayahuasca and other
psychotropic
plants, even among culturally isolated
Amazonian tribes, frequently include the idea
of a shaman
ascending
to heaven to mingle with heavenly people or,
conversely,
celestial beings descending to the place of the
ceremony.
(cf. Gomez 1969; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1971:43,173;
Vickers & Plowman 1984:19;
Ramirez de Jara & Pinzon
1986:173-4; Chaumeil 1982:40;
Cipoletti1987;etc.).[50]
[footnote
#50] An interesting example from Cuna cosmology
has
been reported by Gomez: The stars are the lights of a
dwelling
group of a nature which is intermediate between
solid
bodies and air. Those dwellings are inhabited by
beautiful
women who in the night spin cotton lighted by
lamps
similar to those of white people.
They reproduce themselves by the
will of Paptummatti
{literally,
the Great Father} without the intervention of
men,
always giving birth to females. They move from one
house
to the other by means of golden saucers with which
they
also travel to other worlds, occasionally descending to
any of
them to transport in their vehicles those persons who
are worthy of divine
favor.
The author then adds the
following footnote: In Cuna
mythology,
there are numerous references to these flying
saucers
in their narrations about cultural heroes. This
notion has gone over
to the folklore, and descriptions of
these
saucers occur in daily life. (Gomez 1969:67) [end]
Both Valle (1979) and Meheust
(1988) have noticed the
parallelism
that can be found between folkloristic motifs,
shamanic
journeys, and flying saucer abductions. As in other
parts
of the world today, the Amazon is constantly being
bombarded
by exotic new images and symbols that rapidly
intermingle
with traditional beliefs.
On the other hand, the
connection between UFOs and
tryptamine
hallucinogens has been pointed out by Terence
McKenna, who has ascertained by
questionaire that UFO
contact is the motif
most frequently mentioned by people who
take
psilocybin recreationally, using 15-milligram-range
doses
sufficient to elicit the full spectrum of psychedelic
effects
(cf. McKenna 1984,1989). I have heard of such
stories
by Westerners who have taken ayahuasca, Psilocybin
cubensis,
or pure dimethyltryptamine. As Valle (1979:209-10)
has
pointed out, the UFOs are physical manifestations that
cannot be
understood apart from their psychic and symbolic
reality.
The UFO motif is a subject that should not be
neglected
by cognitive anthropologists, depth psychologists,
and
people interested in the mythologies of modern man.
What follows are excerpts from
the descriptions of the
visions
which contain extraterrestrial themes including
entities,
vehicles, cities, abduction, etc.
THE VISIONS
PART I: PLANT-TEACHERS AND
SHAMANIC POWERS
** VISION 2: ORIGIN OF AYAHUASCA
[..] To the left we see the
giant Liborim with a magical
flying
dagger he uses against his enemies. Behind him there
are three flying saucers coming from Andromeda
to influence
those
learning magical sciences with their enigmatic
vibrations.
In front of the flying saucer is
the house where several
curanderos are in the
midst of these beautiful ayahuasca
visions.
** VISION 4: THE SPIRITS OR
MOTHERS OF THE PLANTS
[..] Further in the background a
great garden stretches back
to an
enchanted castle on the outskirts of the dense city
Ankord. Ankord is a mysterious
city that lies in some
unknown
part of the earth. Over the city circles a strange
spaceship.
** VISION 7: CURANDERA TRANSFORMED
INTO A BOA
This is a very strong vision in
which we see that a great
vegetalista
curandera has become a beautiful queen wearing a
golden
crown, with the body of a blue serpent with
disc-shaped
marks.
Some of her companions are
frightened and haven't the
courage
to look at her and withstand the aura she makes
sprout
from their heads. She unfolds in their midst, showing
them
the power she possesses. She makes them see and listen
to a
great roaring machine in the form of a disc of very
complicated
structure and a flashing luminescence. Violet,
orange,
and yellow lights emanate from this machine. It is a
large
cosmic ship capable of moving at fantastic speeds,
built
by beings with an intelligence superior to humans.
** VISION 8: THE POWERS OF THE
MARIRIS
[..] Above the queen appear the
killo-caranchi {the yellow
skins},
whose hair takes the form of the cobra. The
killo-caranchi
are engaged in a magical tambourine dance.
Behind them flying saucers
appear from the most distant
reaches of the
universe. Some day, far in the future,
mankind
will be able to comprehend these unfathomable
beings.
** VISION 9: EL SOLITARIO
A shaman has taken ayahuasca in
solitude. [..] In the
background
we see several giants from Antares, a distant
galaxy;
they have come to visit the Earth in their flying
saucer.
To the right several guardians prevent the
uninitiated
from entering their esoteric city.
** VISION 10: INCAIC VISION
[..] To the right we see a
creature with wings and an
eagle's
head, always travelling through the universe. [..]
In the background are three
spaceships from Andromeda, just
arriving
from a visit to the subaquatic city. We also see
two
celestial beings controlling the solar rays to benefit
the
earth.
** VISION 13: IN CONNECTION WITH
HEALERS IN TIME AND SPACE
This is a mareacion [120]
produced by cielo ayahuasca [sky
ayahuasca].
[footnote
#120]
Mareacion is the term used in
the Peruvian Amazon to
designate
the hallucinatory effect of psychtropic plants.
[end]
We see shamans from different
parts of the world, all
practicing
vegetal and spiritual medicine. [...] Also
present
are two women called cuayacunas or caressing women.
At their side is an
extraterrestrial ship from Ganymede with
a magic
ladder by which the crew may disembark.
[..] Below are two ships that
have come from Venus; their
crews
approach the house of the shaman in haste. In front of
the
house is the supay-tuyuyo {tuyuyo, a large bird}, which
the
master uses as a vehicle when leaving for the outer
world
and space regions. Below are the callampas {mushrooms}
and the
callampa machaco {mushroom snake}. [..]
At the bottom is an Inca priest
or Varayok, guardian of the
temples
of the occult sciences of this culture. He has had
direct
contact with extraterrestrial beings from Andromeda,
whose
vision is very much superior to ours and who gave
specialized
knowledge to the Tahuantinsuyo shamans.[122]
[footnote
#122]
Tahuantinsuyo (Tawantin-soyo):
the empire of the Four
Querters, the Inca empire. [end]
To the extreme right we see a
lama, illustrious master of
healing
by means of the plants of the mystical mountains of
the
Himalaya, surrounded by very wise men who are
well-versed
in the knowledge of the vegetal world.
PART II: SPIRIT WORLD
A. FOREST SPIRITS
** Vision 14: THE THREE POWERS
[..] Four flying objects always
accompany the sylphs as
guardians
wherever they go.
** VISION 16: THE SESSION OF THE
CHULLACHAKI
[..] In the upper left corner is
the chirapa {rainbow} and
two
dazzling spaceships that hasten to make contact with
human
beings. They come from the Pleiades.
In the pond, on top of two ivory
towers, the yanahuarmis
twins
{black women} are sitting with nets to catch the
spaceships.
They wish to take them to the bottom and make
the
crew members live with them in luxurious aquatic
palaces.
On the right there is another
extraterrestrial spaceship
with a
melodious icaro that has come from the Kima
constellation.
It emanates wisdom in the form of heavenly
light.
B. CHTHONIC SPIRITS
** VISION 18: MURAYA ENTERING
THE SUBAQUATIC WORLD
[..] In the middle is seen an
airport for extraterrestrial
spaceships
from various places. A ship from Jupiter descends
to land
in this airport at the bottom of the river. The ship
in the
center of the airport is from Ganymede. The one at
the
right is from Venus, the one at the left is from Saturn,
and the
one in the back from mars.
** VISION 21: THE SUBLIMITY OF
THE SUMIRUNA
In the center we see an opening
to the subaquatic worlds.
[..] Through this hole the great
characters of that world
send a
sumiruna to space with the help of the ancash silfos
{blue
sylphs} who transport him in a glass tube, which is
the lupuna colorada
{red lupina, Cavallinesia sp.}. There we
see him
now, the sumiruna, standing on a ball of
high-pressure
gas, ready for levitation. [137]
[footnote
#137] Pablo's description of a lupuna colorada
tree
connecting the underwater world with space has a
striking
parallelism in the mythology of the Shipibo as
presented
by Roe (1982:118-9). According to this author, the
central
pillar supporting the multiple worlds of the Shipibo
cosmos
is a gigantic World Tree, often a lupuna tree, which
is
usually hollow and contains fish, the water of its
interior
communicating with the waters of the subaquatic
region.
A lupina with a stairway leading to the tree canopy
is
found in Vision 5. See Chaumeil (1983:154,213) on the
lupina
as an axis mundi among the Yagua. [end]
C. OURANIAN SPIRITS
** VISION 25: VISION OF THE PLANETS
In the vision we also see a
spaceship coming from Mars, one
of the
planets shown, which is comprised of four different
regions
- that of the great volcanoes, the region of deep
canyons,
the region of great craters, and the region of the
terraces,
full of deep caves.
A little beyond is Jupiter and
even farther out is Guibori,
a
fairy, with her magic blue star. Two comets are travelling
very
fast. Vegetalistas are able to call them to travel to
distant
places in the universe.
In the center we see the other
planets: Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune, and Pluto. Vegetalistas
may visit all these planets
rather
easily, because they are not very far away.
In the background we see
Nina-runa with her horses of fire.
She is called upon by shamans as
a powerful defense.
To the left we see Venus, from which a
spaceship is coming.
** VISION 26: THE TIAHUANACO
REALM
In the center of the painting we
see two people from the
Tiahuanaco culture of Lake
Titicaca. The man is called
Papamtua (father that takes care
of everybody) and the woman
Mamamtua (mother of all human
beings). They are in contact
with
huaira-cuchas, beings from distant galaxies with skin
as
white as paper.
Here there are also several
ruiro-piramides {round
pyramids},
also called allpahuichcan {round tombs}, from a
mystical
city called Persivann, located in the magical
esoteric
triangle of the radiant Pleiades. People of great
wisdom
are coming out of the pyramids, expert in
cryptesthesia.
[..] Behind is the vine of the
lucero ayahuasca {star
ayahuasca}.
Its leaves are like boats, and also like
hummingbirds,
carrying people from Antares. With their songs
these
people teach new medicinal techniques.
In the lower right corner there
is a being whose body is
made of
triangles. He is a Manchay Barayuc, a giant soldier
of a
city in the Pleiades.
** VISION 27: SPIRITS DESCENDING
ON A BANCO
To the left there is a Sachamama with a rainbow coming from
her
eyes. Near her is a medicinal plant called maramara
{unidentified}.
Above is a flying saucer that comes from one
of
Saturn's satellites, and two angels armed with swords and
spherical
sheilds.
PART III: ILLNESS AND CURING
** VISION 28: SPIRITUAL HEART
OPERATION
This happened when I arrived in
Tamanco in 1959. My father
took me
to a settlement called Brazil. In a house on one end
of town
lived a woman called Maria Pacaya. My father had to
cure
several patients, and there he took ayahuasca. He also
gave me
the brew after blowing on it with the purpose of
helping
me, as I was suffering from a heart disease.
The brew was so strong that I was at
the edge of screaming.
The visions were so vivid that I
thought what I saw was not
just
imagination, but a contact with something physical and
real. I
saw sphinxes; I was in Africa, Europe, and the
Americas; suddenly I saw a
doctor dressed in a grey-violet
suit.
He was an American. His wife was wearing an
emerald-green
dress. Their daughter had a dress of the same
color. They
seemed to be nurses, and had with them scalpels,
scissors,
pincers, hooks, cotton, needles and thread, and
medicine
of various kinds.
The doctor asked me to take off
my shirt. He took a large,
broad
knife and opened me from the clavicle to the last rib
of the
left side. With a hammer he broke the ribs and opened
my
chest. He put my heart on a dish, where he operated on
its
arteries and joined them with some sort of soft plastic
tubes.
The doctor showed me the location of the damage in my
arteries.
In the meantime the daughter of
the doctor had already
prepared
the needle and threaded needle to sew the wound.
They put my heart back in its
place, closed my chest, and
cleansed
and sewed up the wound. They told me that I had to
fast
for a week. I did so, and since then I have felt
perfect.[149]
[footnote
#149] In the course of interviews with
vegetalistas
and their patients I have encountered several
narrations
in which healing takes place through imagery,
either
in the visions or in dreams. [..] Clodomir Monteiro
da
Silva reports that Sebastiao Costa, a disciple of Irineu
Serra, the founder of the Santo
Daime (ayahuasca) church in
Brazil, was "operated
on" under the effects of the brew. He
saw his
body lying in front of him, and two men arrived with
instruments,
removed his bones and put them back into his
body,
opened his body, and took a square piece out from
which three small
animals came that were the cause of the
illness
(Monteiro 1985:104-5).
This seems to suggest that in
the visions the patients or
the
shaman metaphorically enacts the healing process, and it
is this visualization which carries out the
healing (cf.
Achterberg 1985). [end]
** VISION 29: TYPES OF SORCERY
Here we see King Kundal, the
master of the Huairamama {the
great
snake mother of the air}. [..] He has an umbrella made
of
meteors. It is said that those meteors are special ships
with a
psychomagnetic nucleus.
[..] In front of the city we see
a flying object that
approaches the house
where ayahuasca is taken. It comes from
the
planet Mars, and in it come goblins, experts in surgical
operations.
They come from the area of the inpenetrable
craters.
[..] Further down we see another
extraterrestrial ship,
which
comes from the galaxy Antares with beings of elastic
body
who do not walk upon the ground, as they have strong
levitation
powers which can suspend even the heaviest body.
** VISION 31: CUNGATUYA
In the background, we see a big
spaceship from the Kima
constellation,
with powerful knowledge about meditation and
levitation.
** VISION 32: PREGNANT BY AN
ANACONDA
[..] The spaceship behind her is
seeing to it that the boa
is not
stronger than vegetalista and thus cannot harm him.
It comes from a galaxy where
there is a city called Aponia,
where the
people live in peace without knowing money, only
love;
where people don't fight against each other, but work
in
harmony.
** VISION 33: CAMPANA AYAHUASCA
We see a flying object coming
from the North with blue
beings
from Venus. Half the body of these beings is like
that of
humans, the other half is made only of energy. They
come to
teach the vegetalistas medicine. [..] In the center
is a
spaceship that travels at great speeds, [..]
** VISION 36: INCORPORATION IN A
PATIENT
[..] The helpers of the
vegetalistas are genies of ancient
cultures.
[..] Further up is the great pythonic Lui Ce Fu
with
his sparkling radiant power, smoking his visionary pipe
that
takes him to faraway places, where he gets to know
different
masters of the occult sciences. [..]
** VISION 38: FRIGHTENED BY THE
CHULLACHAKI
[..] Below, glowing with green,
red, and yellow lights, is a
spaceship
of the elves who live on terraces of the planet
Mars, and who from time to time
visit the Earth.
** VISION 39 RECOVERING A
YOUNG MAN KIDNAPPED BY A YAKURUNA
[..] On the left we see a
powerful cosmic ship that moves
through
the different galaxies bringing auras of great
wisdom.
** VISION 41: PULSATIONS
[..] In the upper right corner
we see a spaceship coming
from a
distant place, near the edge of the universe, where
darkness
becomes solid and inpenetrable. It has come here by
travelling
through trillions of galaxies of the unfathomable
universe
one can visit by means of the sacred plant
ayahuasca.
The people of the world from which this spaceship
comes
live in perfect harmony, love, and wisdom, without
egoism
and wars.
** VISION 42: LUCERO AYAHUASCA
This is a vision produced by one
of the varieties of
ayahuasca.
[..]
There is also an
extraterrestrial spaceship with standards
pointing
towards the four cardinal points. In this ship come
being
from the constellation Kima. They resemble humans and
speak
very slowly.
In the lower part of the
painting there are several giants
that
come from the center of the galaxy Antares. They have
great
power and teach icaros that many vegetalistas use to
cure
snake bites or the bites of other poisonous animals.
** VISION 47: ELECTROMAGNETISM
OF THE YANA-YAKUMAMA FROM A
SORCERER.
In this painting we see a sumi,
or great sorcerer, trying to
cause
harm to a group of people peacefully taking ayahuasca.
He is wearing a sword the color
of fire. As he moves,
lightning
and thunder are produced.
NOTE: This painting shows a
sorcerer flying through the air.
He is roughly saucer shaped,
with colorful lights and
markings.
** VISION 46: SEPULTURA TONDURI
This vision is called sepultura
tonduri {Spanish
sepultura=grave,
funeral}, which is a very sad and
frightening
icaro, sung by a sorcerer to kill a person or
his
enemy. [..]
But this muraya is stronger than
the three vegetalistas. We
see to
the far right how he summons his powers, the
nina-rumis
volcanoes {nina=fire, rumis=stone}, which are
mighty
with their lava flows and earthquakes and their large
spaceships ,
which come to attack making circles with laser
nets,
ready to catch in their traps everything the sorcerer
uses.
** VISION 47: ELECTROMAGNETISM OF THE
YANA-YAKUMAMA
[..] The icaros of the curandero
pull the black boa towards
a hole
in the ground, where it will be closed with circling
discs,
charged with radioactivity, which were brought by the
great
acrobats called yura-pachacama, white souls who take
care of
the universe.
** VISION 49: GRADATION OF
POWERS
A splendid vision in which the
sublime powers of the
invisible
world are seen as luminous rays, with qualities or
grades
that go beyond all human knowledge. [..] Then there
is a
turqueise-blue ray representing the sapphire. There we
see
angels or messengers who roam the vast universe,
dwelling
in different galaxies for some time. The have
extrasensory
wisdom and move with the speed of thought. They
are the
guardians appointed to the immense universe.
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