notes from the academic front
chuyma (Aymara) = soul or heart
After a curing held to summon Ingrid's lost soul [...], she was asked how she had slept and whether she had dreamed. Dreams, like speech, are an index of the actions of the soul. She did not remember dreaming, and I ventured that she had slept "like a dead person." I was quickly corrected: she had slept "like an infant"; infants do not dream "because they cannot talk." At stake in both dreaming and speaking is a mature chuyma.
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The ajayu [part of the soul], as Ingrid and I learned, is also implicated in dreaming, transcending the body-bound self by leaving the body and wandering when we dream. Ajayus, or at least "parts" of them, may also leave the body as the result of a bad fright. They are said to "fall down," are "caught" or "trapped," and may remain separated from the body.
- Andrew Orta, Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
So it turns out that Ingrid had a pain in her leg, which the guy divining with the coca leaves found out, and it was because she fell (he saw that too), and she said yes she'd fallen off a horse in her native Holland 15 years ago and it had hurt her knee. So he did a ritual, and a bird was supposed to fly in the next morning, and their host was supposed to trap it or kill it somehow, and that would be the lost bit of Ingrid's soul coming back!
Obviously this is all about Soulless Sam in my head. but omg. sam got hurt and lost his soul in a faraway plaaaaaace but he got it baaaaack
This classssss omg! I fucking love anthro, you guys.
After a curing held to summon Ingrid's lost soul [...], she was asked how she had slept and whether she had dreamed. Dreams, like speech, are an index of the actions of the soul. She did not remember dreaming, and I ventured that she had slept "like a dead person." I was quickly corrected: she had slept "like an infant"; infants do not dream "because they cannot talk." At stake in both dreaming and speaking is a mature chuyma.
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The ajayu [part of the soul], as Ingrid and I learned, is also implicated in dreaming, transcending the body-bound self by leaving the body and wandering when we dream. Ajayus, or at least "parts" of them, may also leave the body as the result of a bad fright. They are said to "fall down," are "caught" or "trapped," and may remain separated from the body.
- Andrew Orta, Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
So it turns out that Ingrid had a pain in her leg, which the guy divining with the coca leaves found out, and it was because she fell (he saw that too), and she said yes she'd fallen off a horse in her native Holland 15 years ago and it had hurt her knee. So he did a ritual, and a bird was supposed to fly in the next morning, and their host was supposed to trap it or kill it somehow, and that would be the lost bit of Ingrid's soul coming back!
Obviously this is all about Soulless Sam in my head. but omg. sam got hurt and lost his soul in a faraway plaaaaaace but he got it baaaaack
This classssss omg! I fucking love anthro, you guys.