Myths and rituals around water in the andean community of Cullhuay

The analysis of myths and rituals helps us understand the meaning that water acquires for local Andean populations in a context shaped by profound socio-environmental transformations. In this text we are interested in analyzing some of the myths and rituals related to water in the Andean community of Cullhuay, integrated –as part of the community– to water in its multiple forms, and whose importance transcends the merely monetary value. This understanding clashes with the technocratic discourses which impose new narratives, and with it, new forms of management from which the discursive and material expropriation of this central resource is legitimized for the material and ideatic reproduction of the community.