El poder de las amazonas en "La leyenda de Yurupary" de Cecilia Caicedo

Abstract

The Colombian writer Cecilia Caicedo rescuing, promotes and disseminates in her novel Leyenda de Yurupary the cultural traditions of Colombian and Brazilian Indians from Vaupés Amazonian area, knew by the Yurupary song and wrote at first in ñengatu language by the Indian boss Maximiano José Roberto in XIX century. It contains ritual performed by some Amazon tribes and concerns their original traditions as the matriarchal system and astral religion before the hero Yurupary imposes the Sun laws which getting away women.

Keywords

• recuperación memoria, yurupary, amazonas, matriarcado