Teófano: song that summons the light in the lyrics of Churata
Abstract
In the life and work of Gamaliel Churata, the death of his wife Brunilda and his children Teófano and Qemesa had a singular impact. This event not only affected Churata, but also reached other members of the Orkopata Group who wrote poems dedicated to these significant souls. In this article we study the death ritual represented in Churata’s poetry, specifically the phases that correspond to the departure and return of the soul (ajayu). For this purpose, two poems dedicated to the death of Teófano (Gamaliel Churata’s son) that follow this ritual sequence are analyzed. In the analysis, the categories of ajayu, amaya and ajayu-watan will be used, in addition to the categories of Andean lyric. With this we will show that the song to death proposed by Churata follows the ritual of the Andean conception of death, especially the Aymara ritual.
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