Sensibilidades Mhuysqa. Un camino por los lugares sagrados... En búsqueda de la memoria de los hijos del agua

Abstract

The creation research document with title “Mhuysqa sensibilities, a journey through the sacred places in search of the children’s water”, has the purpose of reflecting about how human beings can recreate the first Mhuysqa’s ceremony called: Run the earth. This with the aim of changing the conscience and praxis about the importance of worldwide ecology in the modern society. This research is ascribed to the research line cultural studies of the arts and the problematic core Mother earth’s art from the Faculty of Arts (ASAB) of the Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas (Bogota-Colombia). The recreation of Run the Earth was based on the experience of walking along the sacred places of the Mhuyquyta territory, specifically along seven lakes that can be found in this territory, in order to contribute to the healing of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. The research methodologies were: aesthetics research critical intercultural (Valencia, 2013), oral history (Vich, Victor; Zabala, Virginia, 2004) and cartography from the category of body-territory. In this way, the inquiry is developed in seven wheels (aspects): the introduction, the development which was structured in five chapters (seven genealogies of my own sensible experience, seven principles of the Mhuysqa Cosmogony, seven notions from the aesthetic to the sensibility, seven research-creation tools in cultural studies of the arts and seven sacred lakes of the Mhuysqa’s ceremony: Run the earth and the conclusions. Different questionings are presented as final reflexion on our role as artist, activist or educators in the era of energetic extractivism that threaten with contaminate the sacred elemental Mhuysqa: the water, the maximum source of life for all living beings of nature. Similarly, a favourable response to such source of subsistence is given to recover its importance, respect and value avoiding the mining exploitation, which is considered a wearable act for the development of existence. Then, the Mhuysqa proposal of ceremonial practices in sacred places became relevant as a suitable way of maintaining the ecological equilibrium and also contribute to the recovery of the earth and water in our bodies and in the territory scenario of life.