Fernando Payaguaje is currently 70 to 75 years old, we cannot need any more. In the time of the border conflict with Peru over the Napo River (1941) he fled from the Peruvian farm of Mauricio Levl to the lands of Cuyabeno, with two of his children, Dolphin and Marúja, and he told it a little more than twenty years. Just at the same time Fernando was intensely prepared to achieve what the Secoyas consider to be the maximum personal and social realization; that is, the degree of healer, yajé drinker and boss. The pages that follow will count on what constancy, courage and suffering he gained access to those achievements, so that his life was marked by the experience of then. Now it has passed almost half a century and the drinker reviews the long river of his age without barely understanding why or how he was left alone. He sees himself as the last of the great sages of an indigenous people who was famous for the power of their religious leaders. Indeed, among the Secoyas living in Ecuador, he is the final representative of a saga of leaders who treasured the deep secrets of authentic life: contact with the celestial spirits, dominion over the forces of evil, memory of the oldest traditions, power for healing ... He remains but and, moreover, he has stopped exercising most of his duties for over twenty years, beginning with the most basic of them, the rite of yajé. These stories of the drinker can in their own way constitute a biography. They remember passages of indigenous life that belong to the past, far away in various aspects as it will be seen. In that sense we could consider them memories; writing tries to retain or reflect a time irremediably gone. But I like to think that they are rather the result of a rite, hopefully a new rite within the Secoyas.