Hernan Huarache Mamani is an Indian Quechua, born in a village on the Andes’ cordillera, in Peru’: Chivay.He is an Andean’s medicine man, university professor, writer and spreader of his population’s spirituality and wisdom. He graduated in Economics at the University of Arequipa and found a job as an economist working at the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture. Later he rediscovered his Incan origins and became a curandero, a therapist of the Andean’s traditional medicine and also was a passionate expert on this culture. He is a teacher at the Quechua University of Arequipa and has been working for years trying to revalue and spread his country’s culture, a large cultural heritance destroyed that Mamani tried to bring into the light again by gathering evidence, folk traditions and forgotten activities. He was the pupil of a teacher who was the custodian of ancient secrets and by living with him on a sacred mountain, far from the rest of the world, he got to learn about ancient magic, medical, scientific and religious knowledge of the Inca’s population. Due to the Spanish invasions into the Southern part of America in 1535, this culture had been thought to be completely lost especially after the Great Golden and Silver Age.
Thanks to professor Mamani this ancient knowledge reaches Italy through seminars, conferences, ceremonies and participations to various European Universities.
He published in 1985 this book “Curandero on the Andes”, “The Shaman’s eyes” and “The Curandera’s Prophesy”, all edited by Piemme, “The Woman with the Silver Tail” was edited by Mondadori. On September 2001 he established in Arequipa the Mamani’s Foundation. Hernan Huarache Mamani is also the author of the School of Life and Peace, which will be followed by the construction of the University of Life and Peace.