To the English-language reader

This book is not a translation of the Portuguese book “A Y-Guaçu Secreta – Cataratas do Iguaçu como um Chacra da Terra” published earlier this year. I say that the present book is a cousin to the first one. One of the reasons that I preferred to rewrite it instead of translating it are several. One is that readers of the English language have been blessed by an enormous amount of books, magazines and web pages dedicated to Sacred Sites and Places of Peace of Power (See links).

Secondly, what can be thought of new in this field, is the idea of presenting those sites that Brazilians, Argentines, Chileans, Peruvians and Bolivians consider to be sacred in their respective countries: Iguassu Falls, the Brazilian Central Plateau, the Amazon. Again this book will not be able to thouroughly examine all of those sacred places scattered throughout South America. Our aim is to present Iguassu Falls as one such places and give a general view of Brazilian and South American Sacred Geography.

Since this book is a product of Iguassu Falls, the Sacred Waterfalls located in the Iguassu River will receive most of our attention and from here we will irradiate both our attention and intention to the rest of the continent.