Ritual Symbols of the Ancestral Indigenous Marriage, in San Vicente de Topo Grande Community, Ecuador

Abstract

This research entitled: "Communicational study of the ritual symbols of ancestral indigenous marriage, in the San Vicente de Topo Grande Community, Cotacachi Canton, Imbabura Province, Ecuador, for the revitalization of cultural identity", it was raised from personal experience and the observation on how young people of the 21st century are unaware of the process and meaning of ancestral indigenous marriage. The problem evidences the acculturalization, the migration of young people to the capital (Quito), and the colonizing education that as an effect has caused the loss, modification and increase of the symbolic processes of the ancestral indigenous marriage. With these arguments, the study focused on analyzing and identifying the communicational ritual symbols of ancestral indigenous marriage to contribute to the revitalization of cultural identity, in a context of great importance of one's own and spiritual communication. As a methodological route, the relational symbolic experiential path established by the Amawtay Wasi Pluriversity of Ecuador was followed. For the support, bibliographic sources such as texts, magazines, videos and brochures were used; and for the harvest of knowledge and knowledge, to the oral memories of Kichwa-speaking grandparents of the commune, as the main source of information. An important aspect of this research is the recovery of the PALABRAY ritual ceremony as a contribution, as a revitalizing cultural practice of identity.