Madre 'Ikake' is the name for the goddess of the Earth, Mother Earth, carried by the Cuicas/Kuikas--Siblings of the High Mountains--people of Trujillo in the Andes of Venezuela. Madre Ikake is our cofounder connected to Natali's deep ancestral roots through her mother's lineage in Cuicas territory. 

 

Ikake Rising is Mother Earth rising, and with her our pre-colonial identities returning to us: the medicine we all carry deep within, beneath layers of conditioning. 

 

The Rose in our logo represents the long line of campesinas that Natali descends from, Indigenous women of the Andes mountains who have stewarded the land for many generations. 

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The Scottish thistle represents Ben's ties to the land to which he belongs, and his ongoing journey back to his own pre-colonial, Gaelic identity, language and cosmology, and thus his process of unlearning & challenging colonial patterns and behaviors and his work to bring other settler-colonizers into this journey.

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Our collaborative efforts centre the deep work of decentering colonization, reclaiming our cosmologies as a path towards collective liberation and the healing of the land, Mother Earth, from which we come.