from The Christian Institute
The King has hosted a ceremony in honour of ‘mother earth’ at a gathering to promote his philosophy of ‘Harmony’.
Conducted by Mindahi Bastida, the ‘guardian’ and Ritual Ceremony Officer of a Mexican indigenous people group, the fire pit ceremony included incantations and ‘blessings’.
The ‘Harmony Summit’ was a collaboration between the King’s Foundation and the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, both founded by His Majesty, and Bastida’s ‘Earth Elders’ – a group that counts a medicine woman and a ‘healer of dreams’ among its leaders.
Incantations
Describing the event, BBC Royal Correspondent Sean Coughlan said: “We raised our arms in honour of nature as we stood around a fire, which was burning within a ring of flowers.”
During the ceremony, in which King Charles participated, Coughlan reported: “we rotated as we honoured the north, south, east and west and then Mother Earth”.
He also described a conch shell being blown, the holding up of feathers in a blessing to the King, and the reading of incantations.
According to Coughlan: “The King, in a light summer suit, spoke a few quiet words of welcome, wearing a circlet of feathers and a scarf that had been draped ceremonially around his shoulder