"Water

is like our spirit, because it never changes its essence although it takes many forms: clouds, lakes and rivers, dew on the trees, humidity in the environment. In the realm of its multiple manifestations, the essence of our spirit remains unchanged.
Our Law is the law of water, the law of the sun, the law of lightning. It does not admit reforms, it does not know decrees, it does not accept constitutions or policies, because our law, the one that governs life, always remains the same over time. For harmony to return to our lives, it is necessary that the laws created by humans respect and conform to the law of origin, the natural law, the law that allows life, the supreme law with which Mamas work."

" Ñi, it’s water. Ñinuglan is all the water that exists, visible and invisible. Tukwashizha is the natural path of water, these are the underground and surface waterways. All the water that exists in the world comes from Sé, from the Mother. She is born as Aluna Ñinuglan, water in thought, in spirit, in which is the essence allowing water to form, at the same time providing the energy that nourishes and allows its maintenance. It is from there that water is sown and its path is born – Tukwashizha. Jaba Kwan is the Mother who allows the deployment of water.
The knowledge of the principles of water, its typologies, its cycles linked to the cycles of the sun, the energy of water, winds, rains, connections and links with the mountains from the paramos (moors altitudes) to beaches and oceans; all of this is part of the framework that supports the order of things, the organization of the territory and its ancestral management methods.
The organization, structuring and function of all waters are established according to the laws and principles communicated by sacred places and spaces. [...] In wells, marshes, streams and other small streams, in all its forms, water is sacred, we must not alter it, interrupt its movement, dry it up or use it without knowing the original function. Because water, in its different forms, has a function."

Indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Mamas Kogis. Op. Cit. Eric Julien, Tchendukua, ici et ailleurs.