La moledora
Subtitle: el último mito de los Pastos
By: Édison Ávalos, Luis Vásquez
Contributors: Vásquez Narváez, Luis Felipe, author
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Abya-Yala
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Quito, Ecuador
Language: spa
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789942094971
Subjects: Pasto Indians; Social life and customs
Description: The ancestors are telling that many years ago there was living in the cold mountainous regions of the frontier between Colombia and Ecuador a woman who intercepted the men grinded them with two gigantic stones and then ate them sucking out their bones.The authors of this book, parting from an interdisciplinarian reflection, are pointing out in this story, called La moledora, the cultural features of the Pasto Indians, adjudicated to the Agricultural Community La Esperanza in Carchi and to the Indian Protectorate of Chiles in Nariño. Moreover, they state that the actualization of this story, linked to other tales of the local oral tradition, allows the narrative return of sacred beliefs that are supposed to be eradicated since the Spanish Conquest. So, La moledora has been brought up as a millennial ark, where the Indian community is constructing incessantly and maintaining permanently its ethics of the Pastos. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170).