Sun party in the middle of the world

Abstract

Inty Raymi, or festival of the sun, is one of the ancestral traditions of the Andean people that has been transmitted from generation to generation and that marks the cultural syncretism of the indigenous people of Ecuador. This ancient heritage is symbolized through ceremonies, ritual dances and sacrifices that interrelate the elements of the geographical environment and the cosmos, in order to honor the presence of the sun on earth by the harvest of fruits, being the main product corn, considered the basis of the food of the Andean people; and the search for balance with nature which allows the order of what exists. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and describe the different elements, offerings, meaning and characters, which give the colorful touch to the festivity; configured the rituality and religiosity present in the Andean worldview. Currently, it is part of the material and intangible heritage of our culture. Based on a theoretical – documentary reflection, it is intended to describe the ancestral festival of Inty Raymi that is a fundamental part of the Andean worldview, and that shows the cultural richness of the different indigenous people and communities of the region that, from pre-Hispanic times remain valid as part of its ideological legacy, and that through oral memory and ethnic struggles over the last 30 years, they have recovered and have given value part of their traditions, amidst of a constant cultural transformation - globalized imposed by elites, that instead of suppressing the ancestral memory, it has given strength to the cultural revitalization of our people.