Peruvian mapacho Tobacco is a plant that feeds spirits
When one
ingests this plant, it feeds its spirit into something that has nothing to do
with the body or the psyche, but something else ... “A superior and
transcendental instance of the order of pure intelligence, knowledge and wisdom
".
Nicotiana
rustica as the Nicotiana tabacum are native to America and the human being
knows it since 18000 years.
Some
experts in plant genetics determined the place of Tobacco origin.
The place
where it was cultivated for the first time is located in the Andean zone,
between Peru and Ecuador. The first crops are dated between 5000 and 3000 a.C.
Later, it extended to the north. When America was discovered, its use was
already developed throughout the continent.
The name of
Tabaco, would have its origin or of the Island of Tobago, located in the
archipelago of small Antilles where the Tobacco was cultivated, or of the name
that the natives gave to their pipe. This tobacco was smoked daily, but also
used for large parties, particularly religious, by the Incas and Aztecs. To
them, Tobacco had the virtue of soothing hunger and to fight against fatigue.
It was used as a medicinal plant, pure or associated with coca leaves or other
plants. On October 28, 1492, Luis de Torrès and Rodrigo de Jerez, Companions of
Cristobal Colon disembark from the Pinta on the land of Cuba and interpret the
behavior of the Indians with tobacco, as ritual religious fumigations.
