INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
The hand of God in Socaire
Autor/es:
MOYANO, RICARDO
Revista:
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica
Editorial:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM,
Referencias:
Lugar: Ciudad de Mexico ; Año: 2016 vol. 47 p. 51 - 57
Resumen:
We present preliminary results obtained from a spatio-temporal analysis of mountain worship directions at the Atacama Indian community of Socaire, northern Chile (2335?28?S, 6752?36?W, 3,274 masl). These results can be linked to cultural, geographical, climatic, psychological and astronomical information from ethno-archaeological data. We propose a ?system of offering to mountains? that includes concepts such as ceque (straight line), mayllku or mallku (mountain lord or ancestor), and pacha (space and time), which is understoodas the projection of a left human hand in the visible horizon (Tumisa, Lausa, Chiliques, Ipira and Mi?niques Mountains) (PAH-Triad). This system regulates annual activities such as planting (August 1st), harvesting (May 1st), cleansing of irrigation channels (October 24-26th), and the Catholic rituals and festivities of Saint Bartholomew (August 24th), Saint Barbara (December 4th), Christmas-Summer solstice (December 25th), Carnival (between February and March), Holy Cross (May 3rd), and Saint John-Winter solstice (June 24th).More importantly: it gives a basis for Socaire?nos? worldview including categories of ?above, here, and down?; ?right and left?; ?female and male?; ?noon and midnight?; ?north and south?; ?visible and non-visible?, alongwith the Andean concepts of center (ushnu); ?two, three, four and five division?; and ?humanized landscape?.