Por Sirley Ríos Acuña
"In the Peruvian Andes, maize (‘Sara’ in Quechua) is the main food of humans and sacred beings. For this reason, farmers need to obtain an abundant maize harvest with the help of the deities. Through rituals, communication is established with the life-giving forces of nature for the continuity of human and non-human life.
One concrete example at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món de Barcelona is a whistling bottle from the Chimú culture (1000–1476 CE), which represents the maize deity or spirit and a hybrid being (feline-serpent-bird) known as a ‘lunar animal’."
En: Modest, Wayne and Augustat, Claudia (eds.). Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023.
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