Water Blessing Ceremony for the Susquehanna River with the Mamos & Zagas

We invite you to a rare and sacred gathering on one of the oldest and most significant rivers in the world—the Susquehanna River—at the powerful location of Urey Overlook, a place known for its ancient presence, natural beauty, and nearby Indigenous petroglyphs and artifacts that speak to thousands of years of human relationship with this land.

This is the same sacred region where we were honored to gather with the Mamos and Zagas last year—a continuation of an unfolding relationship with this land, its waters, and its ancestral memory.

We will be joined once again by the Mamos and Zagas—the spiritual leaders of the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco, and Kankuama peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

These Elders are part of the Tezhuna, an Indigenous lineage that preserved its spiritual traditions by retreating deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the Spanish Conquest. For thousands of years,…