The Tamia Yura Tree

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TAMIAYURA TREE OR MUYO

(ARBOL DE LA LLUVIA)

(THE RAIN TREE)

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Scientific name: Leonia Glycycarpa

Common name: Tamia Yura

Translation to English: The Rain Tree

Since the times of our ancestors, our legends have transmitted knowledge and wisdom through generation of indigenous people. The legends maintain that the Tamia Yura tree was especially considered a sacred and medicinal tree. In the past when an indigenous community suffered an incurable disease of tumors and abcesses, one day a man entered the forest to ask Mother Nature for help. There he met a wise elf, they talked and the elf showed the man a Tamia Yura tree. It could help and cure him, but whoever used it first had to follow a strict fast and could on use salt or hot pepper for a month. After completing exactly the instructions, he went into the forest and meditated and prayed saying, I’m sick, no one can cureme, save me from this terrible disease, give me the strength to stay alive, healthy and strong. The man took a fruit from the tree and applied it to his wounds. After a month the man was totally cured.Many people in his community asked, how did you recover? Who helped you to get over this illness? The man responded that he had been cured thanks to the power, the force, and the natural spirit of the Tamia Yura tree.
Tamia Yura, in addition to its medicinal powers, can provide rain. During a drought all living things had a hard time surviving the heat, and so the villagers went to the Tamia Yura tree to ask for rain. They arrived at the site and began the ceremony to wake the tree up, they climbed the tree and moved its branches, they danced and worshipped around it to wake it from its deep sleep.

All of a sudden it woke up angry and created strong winds. That very instant the sky darkened and it began to rain all night until midday the next day. Once they got rain the villagers were totally grateful to the Tamia Yura tree.