Hi Annie, I find this post so beautiful! It has a flow, and I felt carried by your words like water...I really appreciate the different creation stories you put forward and I imagined them all...your sentence "I am but a small part of my world’s history" especially stands out to me, considering how much we've seen, read, experienced, felt...this sentence resonates so deeply...thank you for your post! :)
Hi Annie, I adore how you always write beautifully even on a post about a text that you are having trouble connecting to. I recall a conversation that Emma shared with me that she had with a local in Cusco and (from what I remember), he said that he heard another origin story of the Incas that did not involve the sun tradition. From this small fact, we can see how there are many competing theories and fables that inform our understanding of various civilizations.
" (The Royal Commentaries) was just a final preservation tactic, in case the community has the time to revivee their traditional practices, and a piece of colonial literature is the only solution." In these short lines you have concentrated insightful ideas. On the one hand, you highlight the agency of both El Inca Garcilaso and his community in distant viceregal times, and of the Andean communities today. On the other hand, you emphasize the problematic and contradictory solution that a text like the Royal Commentaries entails (starting with its textual and linguistic materiality). Thank you for giving us so many elements to think about.
Hi Annie, I find this post so beautiful! It has a flow, and I felt carried by your words like water...I really appreciate the different creation stories you put forward and I imagined them all...your sentence "I am but a small part of my world’s history" especially stands out to me, considering how much we've seen, read, experienced, felt...this sentence resonates so deeply...thank you for your post! :)
Hi Annie, I adore how you always write beautifully even on a post about a text that you are having trouble connecting to. I recall a conversation that Emma shared with me that she had with a local in Cusco and (from what I remember), he said that he heard another origin story of the Incas that did not involve the sun tradition. From this small fact, we can see how there are many competing theories and fables that inform our understanding of various civilizations.
" (The Royal Commentaries) was just a final preservation tactic, in case the community has the time to revivee their traditional practices, and a piece of colonial literature is the only solution." In these short lines you have concentrated insightful ideas. On the one hand, you highlight the agency of both El Inca Garcilaso and his community in distant viceregal times, and of the Andean communities today. On the other hand, you emphasize the problematic and contradictory solution that a text like the Royal Commentaries entails (starting with its textual and linguistic materiality). Thank you for giving us so many elements to think about.