Voces de la tierra: investigación hacia un proceso creativo por el camino del biodrama

Abstract

When a culture is alive, it possesses identity and memory. That memory is expressed through voice and song, especially through sacred songs, which transmit the history, myths, customs, and worldview of a people. Myth is an essential part of memory, which in turn is linked to the soul and blood, because "memory is carried in the blood." Therefore, a living culture is memory made voice, expressed in narratives, songs, and myths. Living culture is in constant creation; it is a creative mother or "Mother Voice." In the Indian tradition, this idea is represented in the goddess Vac, goddess of voice and memory. In ancient cultures, word and song were considered sacred and carriers of the creative power of the universe. In the Popol Vuh, a sacred Mayan text, it is recounted that after the creation of the world, the voice was created, represented in man and woman, so that the spirit could recognize itself and celebrate its existence, giving rise to culture. Finally, the voice is seen as a divine breath or spirit, related to the Rose of the Winds, a symbol that links the voice, the body, and the emotions.