Colombia's Rain Shaman

[Grahame]

Inside a dilapidated hut at the center of Bogotá, a 66-year-old man named Jorge Elias González stood with his eyes shut and his arms outstretched, praying for no rain. Every two years, the Ibero-American Theatre Festival brings to Colombia hundreds of theater companies, dance troupes, and concert musicians from dozens of countries for one of the world’s largest celebrations of the performing arts. Its 17-day program is pretty much all outdoors. And on the festival’s first day, shortly before the parades that signal the beginning of the scheduled events, the sky darkened in the kind of way that generally suggests an imminent deluge. The clouds were the business reason González was praying. He was a coffee farmer who also happened to be Colombia’s unofficial government rain shaman.

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[mike]

This is something I have never tried before, talking or thinking up rain clouds, Im sure this can be a learned skill, just needs an open mind to get things going. Im sure in arid places a rain man would be very good bringing rain, but no work if you live in Manchester perhaps ?