Layqa

For the mountain in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, see Layqa (Bolivia). For the mountain in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, see Layqa Qullu.

Layqa (Aymara and Quechua)[1][2] is a term employed prior to the Spanish Conquest to denote a ceremonial healer from the Quechua speaking central Peruvian highlands. After the arrival of the European Inquisitors, Catholic priests, began referring to all Quechua magico-religious practitioners by this title, equating the layqa with ‘sorcerer’ or ‘witch.’ Early references to the layqa appear in the Spanish Chronicles, as well as the Huarochirí Manuscript,[3] commissioned in 1608 by a clerical prosecutor and Inquisitor, Father Francisco de Avila, who used it for the persecution of indigenous worships and beliefs. Several contemporary investigators, including psychiatrist and anthropologist Ina Rösing,[4] and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo[5] have attempted to clarify that the layqa in the prehispanic world were not 'witches', but traditional healers and wisdom keepers.

The term layqa has been replaced by the more familiar name of paqo or altomesayoq to refer to contemporary magico-religious practitioners, yet a few of the Quechua pacos have started using the old terminology once again, perhaps in defiance of the oppressive remnants of the Conquistadors.

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References

  1. ↑ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  2. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ The Huarochirí Manuscript
  4. ↑ Ina Rösing
  5. ↑ Alberto Villoldo
  1. The Huarochirí Manuscript, A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion,

Translation from the Quechua by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste, University of Texas Press, 1991

  1. Die Verbannung der Trauer, Ina Rösing, Greno 10/20–15, 79
  2. The Four Agreements, Hay House, 2007.


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