The Alpaca in the Myth and the Ritual

Authors

  • David Gow
  • Rosalinda Gow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v7i8.1081

Keywords:

myths, rituals, alpaca

Abstract

Anyone who has lived for some time in the highlands of the Andes, where alpacas are an important part of the peasant economy, gradually realizes that they also play an important role in various myths and rituals. That is not surprising when it is remembered that external influences, especially those from the technological field, are very light. People still live there, in very close contact with nature, in which man and his alpacas are part of the same empirical and spiritual world, in which both man and alpacas come from the same source and are governed by the same supernatural powers. This article describes and analyzes some of the myths and rituals associated with the alpacas, the relationship between the alpacas and indigenous deities in the light that these myths and rituals may give an insight into Andean cosmology.

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Published

1975-12-01

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