Pukllay Inter-Community Awareness

Pukllay harmony stresses
it is important to ritual fight
to reinforce separate entities

purpose entire point
of ritual conflict
is to resolution meet

together afterward
to united celebrate
union as one people

to embody
the complementarity
of opposites

distinction between
two communities
is clearly defined

then brought
together to form
a single entity

sense inter-community
awareness respect
emerge in wisdom tolerant

the purpose to create
tinkuy a sense of unity
among the participants

in survival Andes
wise encounters
of differing energies

like ‘Yawar Mayu' rivers
of symbolic blood offerings
ensure tinku social harmonies

poem by Terence George Craddock
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