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Vatican City – The hotly contested Pachamama surprise back Vatican but this time not in the form of a wooden statuette, but in the form of official coin of the little papal state. The idol of the Andean populations that had been placed in a church in via della Conciliazione during the synod on the Amazon and then stolen and thrown into the Tiber to disfigure it because it was considered blasphemous and offensive now appears in a celebration coinage of French Pope.
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The silver coin represents the Earth, thought as the mother and home of man. It is represented by a pregnant Indian woman who caresses the belly on which our planet appears with the orography of the continents. The coin was signed by Luigi Oldani, who was inspired by the deteriorating state of the planet according to Laudato Si, “emphasizing that the earth is very often in danger due to reckless social and individual behaviors.” Consequently, Pachamama serves to draw attention to the protection of the planet.
During the synod on the Amazon, many had despised the centrality that the Indian divinity had had in some rites (one also took place in the presence of the Pope in the Vatican gardens). An international case was born. Now, Pachamama’s return in a celebratory coin runs the risk of reigniting controversy. The first images of the silver coin are already beginning to circulate on social networks with quite spicy comments.
The Vatican comments on the coin with the explanation that it is about the “celebration of life on Earth, or a commitment to take care of the planet, and it is the project to which the Church intends to offer its adherence, a great and complex work” : promoting international action to guarantee everyone the future, the food they need, both in quantity and quality, so that economic progress is accompanied by social development, without which there is no real progress.
The numismatic question took place on October 16, the day of the election of John Paul II. Of this 925 silver coin (diameter 34 mm by 22 grams of weight), the Vatican had 3,300 copies minted by the State Mint for sale at the price of 69 euros.
The controversy that had arisen around the Pachamama, a very widespread deity throughout Latin America, had forced the Vatican to seek refuge and assure the faithful that this statue stolen from the church and thrown into the Tiber (and later removed by the carabinieri ) it did not. she was certainly a goddess and there was no idol worship. “They are symbols of Amazonian realities and experiences, with motivations not only cultural, but also religious, but not worship, because this is due only to God,” wrote the Osservatore Romano.
Now a new episode: the Pachamama has returned to the minting of a celebration coin.
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