Pachakuti - Inkuyo

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Inkuyo
Pachakuti (The Overturning of Space-Time)
By Gonzalo Vargas (BMI)
Video Production by Alejandro Rodriguez G. and Braulio Collarana

The audio track comes from Inkuyo's audio album Pachacuti (The overtuning of Space-Time) published by Celestial Harmonies (BMI) and available at Amazon, iTunes, and harmonies.com

Rhythm: Danzante

The two cultures that developed in the Andean region, Aymara and Quechua, were rich in their traditions, myths, and knowledge of Astronomy, which they lived by. In the Andean concept of time, it was believed that long periods of time were linked by severe events which they called Pachakuti -- from the Quechua/Aymara word Pacha, meaning both space and time (also world or earth), and kuti, meaning to overturn or to turn back. Together pachacuti means the overturning of space-time -- a millennial moment in which one world ends an another begins, a total transformation of things. According to the type of transformation that occurred there were different types of Pachakuti; for example a destruction by inundation of water was called Llojllounu Pachacuti, and by fire Nina Pachakuti. This song pretends to portray a Llojllounu Pachakuti.