#kogi

While we may not know much about Vllleard crystal-eaters, what's the bet he's the Sanctuary Moon's token out-of-place weirdo? The guy who gets confused by Sanctuary Moon cultural norms and society (thus getting the show to explain them for the audience, insert <it's free worldbuilding!> meme), acts a little oddly compared to the rest of them, doesn't get why they do x or y or say a or b... you know, the Data, the Spock, etc.

In the beginning, there was a blackness.

Only the sea.

In the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people.

In the beginning there were no animals, no plants.

Only the sea.

The sea was the Mother. The Mother was not people, she was not anything.

Nothing at all.

She was when she was, darkly.

She was memory and potential.

She was aluna.

Kogi: The Indigenous people of the Colombian desert

The Kogis are one of the few indigenous people in South America who were able to maintain their pre-Columbian culture. Being a pacifistic ethnic group they never attempted to fight colonists and preferred to move to more isolated areas up the mountain, where they could continue to live their lives without much influence from western culture. They call themselves the “elder brothers” who are taking care of the “Heart of the World” (the Sierra Nevada) and protecting it from the “younger brothers” (non Kogi or Arhuaco Amerindians) who are destroying it. They believe if the “Heart of the World” get's out of balance it will affect the whole world. Having survived the Spanish colonizers, the [Colombian] colonials in the beginning of the century, the Marijuana bonanza of the 80s, the coca planting of the drug cartels and the armed conflict among guerillas and paramilitaries the Kogi are facing their biggest fear now, the destruction of “Heart of the World” due climatic changes.

According to the Kogi, the reason we now experience increasing earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, floods and other natural and manmade cataclysms across the world is ultimately spiritual. Industrial waste is a result of our low level of spiritual development; pollution reflects our lack of awareness of our interdependence with nature and cosmos. The world is in turmoil because we have failed to maintain a sacred, reciprocal relationship with Mother Earth: we lost our way. The nihilism of our culture reflects this.

Magdalena, Colombia