Written by Ba Adonai
For reference see : Transparency of Creative Originality
◊🌸 Today I began to create a Haywarikuy burnt offering bundle, following the Shipibo-Conibo Ayahuasca traditions as I was originally taught in Peru. The Quechua word Haywarikuy, in the pre-Spanish language of the Andes, refers to the process of creating a formal offering to the good spirits within Amazonian cosmology. Once the bundle is burned, it becomes the Haywarisqa — that which has been offered. In Spanish, this practice is often referred to as Despacho.
◊🧬 I have practiced this tradition countless times throughout my path as an Ayahuasqera Curandera Perfumera, as it is a standard part of preparing for or integrating Ayahuasca ceremonies, as well as Vegetalismo dieta practice. However, it can be done at practically any time in one’s life, and it offers very noticeable and healing benefits. It is often performed after a trauma has been released or an illness healed, during equinoxes or full moons to mark spiritual cycles, or as protection when facing dangerous or liminal transitions.
◊💐 Today, I’d like to guide you through how this ceremony is carried out so that you can try it yourself at home — so long as you are able to take proper responsibility for an open fire within local regulations, and have access to Mapacho, the sacred Amazonian tobacco from Peru, which is an indispensable part of the process when following the Shipibo-Conibo traditions with use of Agua De Florida perfume.
◊📼 In addition to this article, I invite you to view a video I created two years ago for UNITY LIFE Mystery School, which visually walks you through my creation of a Haywarisqa bundle, made with healing intentions for Marilyn Manson, his wife Lindsay Warner, his fan community, and even his enemies, during a time of spiritual difficulty. This video includes footage of Manson’s own North-American–adapted burnt offering ritual as previously shared on his Instagram.
◊🧬 Today’s Haywarikuy was created in the theme of Marilyn Manson’s affection for candy and the shared love of flowers between him and his wife, Lindsay Warner. In Manson’s honour, I included candies in wrappers, gummy worms, and a lollipop—a direct reference to motifs featured in his early artwork. The lollipop was placed into a Disney Princess card, symbolizing suffering, burden, and the need for healing. I also added daisies which Manson has portrayed in his painting and red roses, a favourite flower of both Manson and Lindsay. For myself, I included diamond-shaped wine gums, Sweethearts (a personal favourite), chocolate coins, and wildflowers and pink roses freshly gathered from my garden.
◊💐 In the Shipibo-Conibo understanding—as in many Amazonian and Andean traditions—the world of the master healing spirits is deeply responsive to scent, especially sweet, floral, and aromatic smells.
◊🍭 The bundle typically contains symbolically rich candies, aromatic resins, and fragrant flowers or petals, infused with poetic and heartfelt intentions. It may also include (optionally): valuable seeds, alcohol, incense, gold or silver foil, colored grains, coca leaves, ceremonial ashes, cured or uncured Mapacho leaves, cigarettes or rolls, and in the rarest cases, dried llama fetuses with gold leaf applied to the head. These ingredients align with the Shipibo understanding that good spirits are beings of subtle energy, drawn to beauty, harmony, fragrance, artful arrangement of items, and respectful ceremony.
◊🖤 Bundles may also include handwritten notes, photos, or personal items that express heavy energies — suffering, burden, illness, disorder, decay. These negative imprints are purified by the sweetness of the burning bundle and healed through the intervention of benevolent spirits. The ceremony is a way of offering your pain into transformation, allowing it to become learning, renewal or healing.
◊🧘🏽♂️🔥 The bundle is used in contemplative healing meditation, and Mapacho smoke is blown generously over it for spiritual protection.
It is then drenched in perfume — such as agua de florida, camalonga, or handmade plant perfumes — to support ignition with alcohol and enhance its fragrance. (Note: Agua de Florida must be blessed with Mapacho smoke before use). The bundle is tightly wrapped in good paper, probably doused again in perfume, then completely burned.
◊🍬🌹 In my Ayahuasca visions, I was especially well mentored by the medicine about the relationship between plant spirits and sweets. I was shown that even humble North American penny candies are received with high enthusiasm by the spirits, much like the traditional sugar figurines of Peru. These items appeal to the medicine’s sense of humor, benevolence, and poetic intelligence — and often, Ayahuasca visions after these offerings formed stunningly beautiful imagery from these simple elements.
◊✨ Key Themes in This Tradition
- Reciprocity (Ayni / Ani Xeati): The Earth gives, and we must give back in conscious exchange.
- Transformation: Fire as a transfiguring agent turning physical energies into spirit.
- Closure & Rebirth: Ritual burning signifies the end of a cycle and clears space for the new.
- Spiritual Economy: Bundles often include symbolic wealth—flowers, tobacco, seeds, silver—offered as currency to the spirit world.
◊🌍 Cross-Cultural Parallels
◊🌿 These principles are reflected across many Amazonian and Andean cultures beyond the Shipibo-Conibo:
- Asháninka & Panoan groups burn symbolic objects like leaves, cloth, or hair to release energy or illness into the fire.
- They may burn a physical object representing pain or disease, giving it to the fire to be metabolized by spirit.
- Kogi (Colombia) and Maya (Central America) burn offerings to feed the unseen half of creation; what burns here becomes visible in the spirit world.
◊🪶 The Aboriginal First Peoples of North America also have similar traditions :
- North American Indigenous nations burn tobacco, sweetgrass, cedar, or sage as offerings to Creator, spirits of place, and ancestors.
- In many nations (e.g., Lakota, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee), food and drink are burned or left outdoors during seasonal or funerary rites, as nourishment for the spirits.
- Prayer bundles tied with cloth and filled with symbolic items are burned or tied to trees in a gesture of deep offering.
◊💫 Modifications
◊💧 It is very acceptable, of course, to modify the burnt offering ceremony to fit your circumstances or situation, based on what you can readily access or afford. Where fire is difficult to safely burn, some people send their bundles out into a natural body of water, instead.
◊✨ Conclusion
◊🌈 This is a tradition of profound beauty, reciprocity, and spiritual precision — one that reveals how deeply connected we are to the invisible forces that shape our health, fate, and dreams.
◊⭐️ Whether performed in the Amazon, the Andes, or adapted with reverence in the North, the act of offering carries universal power. It reminds us that spirit responds to sweetness, that fire makes space for renewal, and that through simple beauty — candies, flowers, prayers, and perfume — we can engage in meaningful dialogue with the unseen.
◊💎 May your living dreams reflect the beauty, love, authentic emotions and the colorful & fragrant joys of your offerings.
Love, Ba
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