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Deja Vudu Mix 7 is called chullpa pacha.

Earlier this year I was in Peru with my partner, and we met my dearest friend Alfonso, who showed me the works of Gamaliel Churata. Reading his book Resurrección de los muertos, I stumbled on “chullpa pacha”, the mystical time from before the solar light and before the arrival of the Inca, a space-time populated by uncontrollable entities, among them the dead, who have relations of reciprocity with the living. In Churata’s words, “It is in the world below, where chaos and the fusion of opposing elements reign, that Aymara thought locates the possibility of a future: ‘The next age will sprout from the place where the sudden and uncertain powers that give us life come forth, and so the ancestors, the people of earlier times, not only make the earth fertile from the manqha pacha, but are also the source of a more distant future. They lie beneath the ground as a seed of fertility and of a new society.’”

In my childhood in Amambay, in Mato Grosso do Sul, surrounded by Atlantic Forest, we were allowed by our elders to play anywhere, in the forest, in the cerrado, in the wetlands. Anywhere. Past the yard, past the edge of the trees, past shouting distance. We went out in the morning and stayed out, and no adult came looking, and there was no arrangement about where we would be. The rules, though, were simple, and there were three.

One: once you hear the cicadas, night is coming, and it is time to go back home.

Two: if you ever hear a whistle in the wild, never, ever whistle back.

Three: if you hear your name, never look for the one who called it.

All three had one reason: “do not attune to the encantados.”

Ghosts would require somebody to have died;
gods would require somebody to pray.
Encantados are enchanted in the sense of having been taken into enchantment rather than having worked one: they are beings who went instead of dying, into the water, into the trees, under the ground, and who remain there, present and invisible and close.

This is my take on how all of this relates.