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University of the Arts promotes ancestral festivities
Posted On 29 Dec 2015
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A project conducted by the School of Literature at the University of the Arts (UArtes) seeks to promote the relationship between communities and the recovery of their ancestral festivities.
According to Ruth Roman, director of the school, this is an attempt of some teachers and students to seek a reconnection with ceremonial and ritual forms that have been denied and made invisible “by a process of racist, exclusionary and embarrassing modernity with their roots.”
“The solar festivities were chosen because all peoples have a relationship with the Sun, which marks agricultural cycles of which we are no longer aware in the city,” she added.
Meanwhile, Amaranta Pico, professor at the university, said that the aim is to celebrate the four Raymi, that comprises two solstices and two equinoxes: Kuyac Raymi, Kapac Raymi, Pawkar Raymi and Inti Raymi.
