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Munaiwarmi means "Women's Love Stone" in the Quechua language of Bolivia and Peru. Hand-carved of soapstone, this amulet is used by Indian women in love spells to assure the fidelity of husbands or boyfriends while they are journeying away from home. Like the similar Quechua munachi stone that is used in love spell to attract love, the munaiwarmi is wrapped with a lock of hair from both the man and woman to activate the charm. It may be kept by the woman at home or the man may carry the stone with him to keep himself from temptation while on the road. A sneaky women may even sew a hidden munaiwarmi stone into a man's back-pack or such.
Unlike the munachi, which consists of a copulating couple in the round and in the buff, the munaiwarmi is entirely "G" rated. Each maker carves them to suit his or her own taste and artistry, but the one shown here is fairly typical. It is a flat stone, 1 inch wide, 1 1/2 inches high, and 1/4 inch thick, carved on the front face only, and it depicts a standing woman in a blouse and long skirt holding a large, stylized bunch of flowers on her right hip and, to her left, a standing man in shirt and trousers with his arms crossed over his chest. The man is bald; the woman wears two long braids, and both parties are smiling with eyes demurely downcast. Other stones are more rounded and carved with more fullness of feature. We have been told that the woman holds flowers because they can be used to symbolize both a pleasant marriage and the possibility of children.
Contemporary munaiwarmi and munachi amulets derive from the ancient Quechua and Aymara tradition of carving soapstone illa, canopa, mulla, and chacra amulets to ensure the fecundity of human beings and domestic animals, and burying them in Pachamama, the Mother Earth, to activate their blessings.
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