A Kalku or Calcu, in Mapuche mythology, is a sorcerer or witch who works with black magic and negative powers or forces. The essentially benevolent shamans are referred to as machi, to avoid confusion with the malevolent kalku.
The kalku is a semi-mythical character that has the power of working with wekufe, “spirits or wicked creatures”. The kalku also have as servants other beings such as the Anchimayen, or the Chonchon.
A mapuche kalku is usually an inherited role, although it could be a machi that is interested in lucrative ends, or a less powerful, frustrated machi who ignores the laws of the admapu (the rules of the Mapuches).
some of you have never spent 100 years frozen in an iceberg while the world you were responsible for protecting fell to war and it shows
some of you have never been painfully disfigured by your own father at the tender age of 14 in response to an simple misstep and it shows
some of you were never forced to invent metalbending as your only escape from a hostage situation and it shows
some of you have never lost your first love when she gave up her physical form to become the spirit of the moon and it shows
some of you have never confronted the man that murdered your mother by turning the rain above him into ice daggers only to give up your pursuit for vengeance out of pity and self-love and it shows
some of you have never been raised to believe that you are an unloveable monster and that your enemy is your own brother rather your evil father who carefully groomed you to be his greatest weapon and it shows
some of you have never lost your entire livelihood due to a group of rowdy teenagers’ recklessness and complete disregard for the value of cabbages and it shows
me & a friend were talkin about how present mic just jams to everything, then i said “ok he whips to the ‘Swiper No Swiping’ segments in Dora too and Eri will probs learn from him” so…..
This high art is completely indistinguishable from a quality shitpost and I cannot quite describe the sheer existiential satisfaction and calm I am feeling right now