Drawtober: Week 4 | Folklore (Aya Huma)
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The central character of Inti Raymi, the most important celebration of Andean culture from Ecuador, is the Aya Huma; his two-faced mask represents the duality of the world: the past and the future, the day and the night, the jawa and the uray, the north and the south. Their hair represents the serpent, symbol of wisdom. Their thighs and legs are covered by a sheepskin, a manifestation of authority and dominion over the ancestral lands. The Aya Huma does not have any negative force, on the contrary it is a concentrator and possessor of the energies of Pachamama or Mother Earth and therefore, responsible for the order that should rule in the cosmos.
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