Listening to Stone Beings

Carl Austin Hyatt

Carl Austin Hyatt, Sacred Stone at Machu Picchu, 1998. This twenty-foot-long stone is intentionally shaped to echo the profile of the distant mountain, Apu Yanantin. Additionally, the energies and unique qualities of the distant mountain would have been linked to this stone and the city of Machu Picchu through ceremonies and rituals. In this way the life force of the landscape could be intentionally directed or channeled to strengthen the vitality of any site. If one imagines the landscape as a body, then this work follows the logic of acupuncture.

Survivance

July 2021

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Notes

For more information about the author’s works, see Carl Austin Hyatt Photography, ➝.

Hillary S. Webb, Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), 134.

Carolyn J. Dean, A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 62.

Amba J. Sepie, “Listening to the Elders: Earth Consciousness and Ecology,” in Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience, ed. Jack Hunter (Guildford: White Crow Books, 2019), 59–70.

Peter Kingsley, Reality (Inverness: The Golden Sufi Center, 2003).

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