SAN PEDRO OF HUANCARPATA (HUARI, ANCASH): A CASE OF HETEROGENEITY FROM THREE PREHISPANIC DEITIES

Guerrero V. · Dialogo Andino (2020) · DOI: 10.4067/s0719-26812020000300037

Resumen

The present work explores the complex resemantization processes of the religious feast of San Pedro of Huancarpata in the province of Huari, Ancash region, Peru. The oral tradition is examined to do this exploration, emphasizing the hagiography of the saint, his actants, the connections with the speech of the first catechists who arrived in those parts, the Lima councils, the campaigns of extirpation, the survival of the Quechua worldview and the multiple forms of cultural resistance. Likewise, an ethnohistoric and ethno-literary reading is made about the deities Huari, Libiac, and Llamoq, highlighting its gestation and development that allows us to understand the religious meaning of the feast in Huancarpata. From these elements, it is intended to explain the addition, substitution, and superposition that the former hirka Llamoq, prehispanic deity, suffered to finally transfer its original attributes to the new cult element: San Pedro.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo