The Wayakuntus meet

Ayabaca Province and Calvas Canton try to erase the limits of space and time.

 

By Mario Tabra Guerrero

 

    AYABACA, Peru – More than five centuries have passed on, when three warrior peoples and after five months fighting, were added by the Incas into the Tawantinsuyo [Tawantinsooyo] Confederation. Those peoples wereCcalvas, Ayawakas, and Caxas (Wayakuntu) that became part of Chinchaysuyo [Chinchaiasooyo]. (This region extended along the coast of actual Peruvian Northern taking the Andean Occidental and Oriental Ranges, then it penetrated from there to actual Ecuador, and Nairño Department, Colombia.)

 

Later, our grandparents tell upon the time of idolatries removal, there were two mounts growing up too much that the Spanish priests feared they united onto the sky, so they nailed two crosses. One was nailed on the La Huaca Mount, in Chocán, Ayabaca, aand the other one on El Ahuaca Mount, in Cariamanga, Loja, and since that moment, both stopped to grow up forming each one a part of a different parish.

 

What did they fear, really? That both ancestral peoples reached to meet. Closuring this separation, during the Republic, the creole authorities created a border to separate pthis territory at the north for Ecuador, and at the south for Peru, appearing in the geopolitics as Calvas Canton, Loja Province, Ecuador, and Ayabaca Province, Piura Region, Peru.

 

    After many trips to Ayabaca and Cariamanga as well, the Asociación Cultural Turística Los Hijos del Sol que Nace  in association with Fundación Ecológica El Ahuaca of Cariamanga, Ecuador, have come preparing the Wayakuntu Tinkuy Wariruna Sonqo (Wayakuntu Meeting – Indomitable Heart).

 

The purpose is knowing the material and unmaterial ancestral cultural patrimony of the Wayakuntu Community as the root of our identity, establishing fraternity links among habitants of Peru/Ecuador border in the Wayakuntu territory. We want to launch mutual cooperation agreements, allowing us to coordinate binational activities to improve the life conditions of our inhabitants, respecting the rights of the Pachamama (Mother Earth), defending and protecting the ancestral heritage before activities that could cause its deterioration and ddestruction.

 

Our peoples were united during millennia  into the great Wayakuntu Confederation, that was violently separated and silenced 500 years ago by the Inca and European intervention. We have intentionally aside the development of our countries.

 

    We believe it’s time that our peoples, from their communities based on the principles of reciprocity, duality, relationality, complementarity, begin the great way of unity for the development in harmony to Pachamama. We wish those days of meeting serve us to return loving our Mother Earth that today claims for its attention and salvation, so what we will be rewarded with a longer staying of our humankind in our common home – Earth.

 

Editor’s Notice: We have a scientific controversy with the story’s author because the used place names are Quechuan origin, product of the Inca imposition, once it conquered this people as it’s told on the story. The big mistery is what those people’s name was really in their original language. We will continue researching.

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