Hybrid rituals
Hybrid rituals is an interactive contemporary creation that offers the public a digital nature space, where they can perform a “ritual” from any geographical location. The piece invites you to the choice of different kinds of elements, sounds and visuals, driving you to a final hybrid action.
The process of creating the project is the result of a set of investigations related to customs, instruments, territories and spiritualities of the ancestral peoples from Ecuador, Canary Islands and Argentina, in relation to the connection of the human being with nature.
Hybrid rituals. Ancestral people.
ECUADOR
Cañari
Its most important festivity is the “Inti Raymi” (Sun Festival), made up from three rituals, the “Intiwatana” ritual (mooring to the sun), the “Haway” ritual (agricultural singing) and the “Allpa mama” ritual (mother earth) where they celebrate its fertility.
Kayambis
Kayambis To keep their customs they haved to adapt them to the European traditions, the ones from San Pedro match with the Inti Raymi where they make a ceremony on the sacragte place of Puntiatzil, delineating the form of the chacana with rose petals.
ARGENTINA
Ritual to the Pachamama
It’s the most popular of the mythological beliefs of the Incaic ambit that still survives with strength in the northwest provinces of Argentina.
The central ritual to the Pachamama is the “challa” or payment. The word “challar” it is use as synonymous of “to feed and give to drink the earth”. Another of the traditions is to drink cane with ruda. The elders swear that the cane with ruda prolongs life, drives away bad luck, promotes joys and rid away peoples from bad omens.
August first is when the Pachamama’s feeds, for which a clay pot with cooked food is buried along coca leaves, alcohol, wine, cigarettes, chicha, medicinal plants and seeds among other things. The divinity Pachamama represents the Earth, but not only the soil or geological land, nor only nature, it is all of this together.
The Pachamama or Mother Earth is the feminine goddess of the earth and fertility, a benign agricultural deity conceived as the mother that nurtures, protects and sustains the human beings. In the Incaic tradition is the communal agricultural deity, the foundation of all civilization and the Andine State. It’s the most popular of the mythological beliefs of the Incaic ambit that still survives with strength in the northwest provinces of Argentina.
ISLAS CANARIAS
The Beñesmen or the August moon.
On august 15 it celebrates the canarian festival of aborigens, the Beñesmen, which was the harvest celebration and the central day of the year. It was considered as the “Guanche New Year”, which coincided with the harvest.
The Guanches gave thanks and asked to their divinities, to the sun and the sky, Magec y Achamán, and to mother earth, the daughter and mother of the sun, Chaxiraxi. The ritual consisted in the breaking of the Gánigo with milk and honey, surrounded by green candles.