The Tarahumara people in Mexico: the greatest runners the world has ever seen

[Bill Ryan]

Three references here:

1. https://explorersweb.com/2021/03/13/...warm-up-goshen
2. A new book in the Avalon Library:
   Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen)
   https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Chr...er%20Seen).pdf
   
3. The existing Avalon thread Korima (the "circle of sharing").

A group of indigenous long-distance runners in Mexico rarely get sick

Deep in the Copper Mountains of Mexico is the key to all our health problems. The world is wrought with disease and decreasing life expectancy, the unfortunate result of our dependence on consumerism and easy living. But we weren’t always that way.

Humans were built to exercise, to move, to be strong and live in the wild. The Tarahumara, also known as the Raramuri of Chihuahua, Mexico, are outstanding examples of how we can live differently.

Tarahumara people

The Tarahumara are famous for their ability to run very long distances, up to 350km (250 miles). The very name Raramuri translates to runners on foot. They run with little to no footwear, which aids them in their endurance feats.

Should they wear shoes, their usual go-to are huaraches, flat sandals made from goat leather. This footwear allows them to run in a springy way which mimics running barefoot and forces them to have good form and better posture. Researchers have found that they run better than people who wear normal running shoes. Remarkably, these flat sandals can handle the tough and rocky terrain.

Endurance is a key component of their culture, as they believe that it is their sacred duty to keep the world spinning on its axis by running. Every year, their main festival, the Rarajipari, is a ceremonial ball game that requires incredible amounts of stamina. The men’s race consists of kicking or hitting a hand-carved wooden ball with a long stick in a relay fashion. The ball is carried for several kilometres and in teams.

The women’s race is similar except with a hoop. Young people, middle-aged, children, and even some elders in their 90s participate. There is no pomp and ceremony with grand prizes and finish lines, only a focus on pleasing their creator and having fun within the community.

A Tarahumara child running

Scientists have found that the Tarahumara diet is one of the best in the world, as the group is considered a “cold spot” for diseases. Health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, and anxiety have not made their way to this community for several reasons.

They practice subsistence farming, and their diet includes some of the best anti-inflammatory, high-protein, and cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals. Unprocessed corn, beans, squash, herbs, and many other vegetables fuel their long runs. Ox, chicken, and goat meat are rare treats. The Tarahumara debunk the popular myth that runners can’t be vegetarians.

The Tarahumara’s lifestyle has attracted people from far and wide and inspired them to live more minimally. They remind us that it is possible to go far with just a little.

A wonderful video:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_xeH0KAqiqI

[Lunesoleil]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tADycW0hUf8

Excellent

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y67Ce4VVpmI

[prc]

I wonder if they have knee injuries and how long they live?

[Hym]

Well, being a very long distance runner, loving the hill and mountain running, connecting with the natural world, without competing.....often alone, but not really at all, by any stretch...

I was going to write on the efficiency of the RaRaMuri's limited stride and how wearing thinner foot ware is healthier for the entire body and alignment...the power of the mainly veg foods they eat...

I was going to write about the beauty of this culture,

then the modern pagans push into the picture and reveal their true intent.....

The 'christian' organizer said,
"When you're dealing with an animistic world view you really have to tear it down the foundation, in a sense, and rebuild it on the word of god." WTF! White boy can't even talk straight...."in a sense"...even he doesn't believe what he's saying is honest, true or remotely spiritual.

That's not passing by me without a few choice words, befitting their morally corrupt imposition on native culture.

I preface this comment with a suggestion to STFU and just serve, if you've found a path in your life that suits you well. I have some great, loving, honest, serviceful, no b.s. Christian friends who serve humanity without the price the f'n salesmen of their dark and light demand from those they come in contact with. Who is to know that all of the "health care" and "education" you provide is worth the price of an entire culture........their real world souls.

GEEEEEEEEZ!
If I could write only to friends I'd lay into this shyte without reservation, but this is a public forum, so I'm being very reserved here....

At the beginning of the 2nd video I knew someone was selling something.....The narrator was speaking in spanish saying,
'The devil this, god that', clearly inventing a story that was of a catholic or an evangelical origin, not borne of native experience or lore, but often the evangelical and catholic players manual on instilling fear into a native population, all demonic and fear based manipulation. F*****************K! Them....

Those beautiful people HAVE had demons in their lives already, and until the not-eve-angelicals arrived it looks like they've been doing well. They dealt with the death cult of the conquistador catholic, missionary slavers and the catholic based drug cartels, not too far from the methods of the nazi catholics, and they had survived those intrusions.

Before the europeans arrived the RaRaMuri didn't cut their hair and their weaving was quite different. I heard nothing about their own pre-conquest iconography, their creation stories, their methods of dealing with archons and their relations with real angels.....

Then I heard the word "missionary"......and I hear religious colonization. WARNING !!!!!!!!
It's a conscious genocide of indigenous rights, rights that no one, especially an organized group of religious zealots should be involved in.

Folks, the world and most every indigenous civilization has been ruined....
destroyed.... manipulated.....mind f'd.....by organized religions, their evangelists, some organized, some "saved" group of this religion or that..
You mean you can't just serve without selling your version of creation?

SO, these BEAUTIFUL, LOVING, HEALTHY, long lived people were waiting just for you?

If your representative or god figure was omnipotent and a servant of the ONE and ONLY,
don't you think that rep, Jesus, Mohamed, Booduh would have come to them in a vision, gave them a call, sent them a letter, dropped a leaflet or two from the sky by now?

Jeez, it's been 2,500, 2,000, and 1,200 f'n years and the "saved" Christless christians think their special connection to a creator waited for their special arse to come in and help those real, creation loving people?

Hey, and How the F hard is it to call a very old culture by the name THEY chose, centuries ago?
You know the darkness of organized cults, religions, whatever you want to call them, has a native people by their short and curlies when they can't even call the culture they are claiming to save by their real name.

The truth is they, the indigenous, native people are there to teach evangelical, ignorant, godless fools how a life worth living is to be lived. The pseudo-spiritual evangelical's fear encased, soul confinement is a disease they carry on to those who know Creation without words, something they'll likely never experience. The soul sickness they create when they interfere with vibrant, mentally, physically and spiritually healthy people will follow them in this life and the next.

However, when they do call them by THEIR name, they still have no moral right to inject their limited religious dogma upon any culture that was doing well without them.

This is the same reason I don't call DeeNeh (Dine) by their colonial, b.s. name, 'navajo'. It is such an ingrained insult to the Deeneh that when this man tells them he never uses the "N" word, navajo, to describe them and their culture they step back and acknowledge that they need to claim THEIR own identity. It's called respect and being a human without an agenda.

They are the RaRaMuri.