Invocação à natureza e mítico-simbólico originário: a jornada indígena em Canto a las Flores, de Elvira Espejo Ayca

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the manifestations of the mythical-symbolic indigenous in Canto a las Flores (2006), a bilingual poem book published by the textile researcher and poet Elvira Espejo, as a path to the ancestry of the indigenous peoples of Bolivia. In this process, the study will investigate the invocation of nature as an epic resource, based on work of Christina Bielinski Ramalho (2013 and 2015), and indigenous heroism in the trajectory of the poetic/narrator-self, with a contribution of the Joseph Campbell (1990). The work taken as a corpus originates from the chants of the Aymara and Quechua oral tradition of the Bolivian Andes, reconstituting rites and precepts of the original culture. The verses take up narratives characteristic of Andean textile production and lead to a journey of revisiting and resignifying ancestral wisdom, in which nature is recognized as space for indigenous sacredness. With this, archetypal motifs are highlighted that converge with the imagery of mythical heroism and point to cultural resistance in Andean production. The theoretical basis is based on work of Denise Y. Arnold and Juan de Dios Yapita (2018) on Andean textile culture and symbology and reaches the considerations of Mircea Eliade (1998) on the myth.