Culture

Cacao was always sacred. Not the latte. Not the powder in a capsule. But bitter, powerful, warming. A drink for rituals, for initiations, for the heart that wanted to feel. For the Maya, for the Aztec Empire, cacao was a bridge. Between human and divine. Between body and spirit. Between what is visible and what lives unseen. Then the ships came. And cacao shifted from sacred to commodity. From drink to profit. From ritual to exploitation. African bodies were taken to the Amer