Harpe
"HARPÈ Tabacco Snuff"
HARPE CEREMONY
We Evoque the spirit of grandfather tabaco, the wind Taita Waira and the wind goddess Maria Sacapana. To connect back to our higher self and inner world. To clear, clean and heal the mined. To pray & receive messages and answers to our questions. With Tabaco snuff medicine from Brazil & Peru. We receive clarity from grate spirit and the jungle.
Rapé has been used since tobacco was discovered, which is about 5000 years ago. The indigenous people from the American continent were the first ones to inhale, chew and drink the plant.
About 500 years ago, when Columbus returned to Europe from his expedition to America, the Europeans first encountered tobacco, and therefore Rapé. At the time, the way Inca’s used Rapé to treat various kinds of respiratory diseases and to ‘purify’ the head was described on paper. It also described how the Inca’s used the substance for many different ceremonies. Rapé was used to make inner journeys and evoke visions. It was considered a medicine that could take bad energy away. However, it was also used in a social and recreative context special amongst the Brazilian Tribes, just like we take coffee or cigarettes nowadays.
The use of Rapé results in a strong stimulation of the mucous membranes, which can be experienced as a hard, internal slap. This intense blow causes the blood vesicle to dilate opening the mind to, allowing the set intentions to do their work. Rapé helps the user to let go of emotional, physical and mental illnesses. It releases negative energies and confusion. Shamans use Rapé to reconnect with their higher self, which is said to connect them to Spirit.
Tobacco contains two other alkaloids: harman and norharman. These alkaloids are closely related to harmine and harmaline, which occur in Ayahuasca. Tobacco, therefore. Both substances are therefore inextricably linked during such Ayahuasca rituals. Rapé is also often combined with other shamanic ceremonies, such as a Kambo- or sweat lodge rituals in the North.