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| The Great Mencey Tinerfe. King of the Guanches of Tenerife |
Legend has it that Tinerfe, worried about possible future Hispanic invasions of the Island of Tenerife, and perhaps other dangers that could attack its Guanche people, Mencey climbed the peak of Teide (at that time snow-capped), the center of its insular Menceyato. , to ask for guidance and protection from their great god Achamán, creator of all things.
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| Mount Teide, the highest peak in Spain. Guanche Sacred Place |
Legend also says that he only took goat's milk and a little honey with him.
After fourteen suns had passed, Achamán, all powerful, enveloped Tinerfe with a great spiral of light called Magec for seven more suns, which filled him with great wisdom.
After such an experience, the great Mencey was reunited with his people, but now the king of the Guanches, illuminated by the Divine Light and supernatural powers to such an extent that his hair had become completely white like "sugar bread" and his His face and eyes shone so brightly that they illuminated the dark nights of the Ucanca Valley as if it were a torch.
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| After the death of Tinerfe the island was divided into nine Menceyatos |
He ruled and maintained all the small kingdoms of the island under a single Menceyato.
He guided his people with great justice and wisdom, and was a brave spiritual guide to his people, as if Achaman himself guided his hand.
His teachings were lost, but he always remembered how he laid his hands on heaven and earth. Tinerfe's hands were impregnated with what the wind and sea breeze brought.
The Great Mencey held his hands up high, with his palms directed toward where the wind was blowing and then he smelled them, feeling, seeing what would happen in the future. He "Read" in his hands what the sea breeze and the land wind brought him. In this way he could guide and safeguard the Guanches of his town from storms and other possible external threats.
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| The Mencey Guanche shone like a torch in the night |
King "Tinerfe the Great", supreme member of the Guanche council of elders and grand master of the Tagoror school, educated his disciples with an arduous vocation and greater benevolence, in the Arts and Sciences of Healing and Healing.
Under the supervision of the Mencey, the wise Guanche elders applied healing, curative and even surgical techniques with just their own hands and sharp obsidian stones.
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| The Guanches. Wise and Spiritual People |
It is said that, during the moments of education that he gave, from time to time, he used to get up from the stone where he always sat when he orally addressed his people. He looked towards the sky, he looked into the distance, he looked towards Achamán and he looked at Magec, the light that illuminated him. He remained as if in a trance state, where he did not see with his eyes but with his Soul, to receive wisdom and divine inspiration. His youngest disciples never managed to get used to such a reaction on the part of their King and Master, and they climbed the cliffs and mounds of earth to look enthusiastically at the same place in the infinite where the Great Mencey Tinerfe rested his sight, in order to be able to see what he saw...
...his disciples never understood him,
...they could never see what the Guanche King saw,
...they were never able to see Achamán...
In Tribute to the Great Mencey Tinerfe (I owed it to him).
Damián Alvarez.
Creator of the Tinerfe Healing System
