The Cañari people currently live in South America and parts of Ecuador. Thousands of years ago, the Cañari people had many clashes and rivalries with the Inca people and the Cañari people strove to make their capital, Tumebamba, better than the Inca's capital. Sounds like sibling rivalry if you ask me. The Cañari people even allied with the Spanish conquistadors in order to fight the Incas. But of course, the Spanish made the Cañaris learn and primarily use Kichwa and Spanish. The Cañaris original language died off a little bit after that.
The name Cañari has an interesting meaning. “Kan” meant snake and “ara” meant Macaw.
The Cañari people have a confederacy of united tribes across South America.
The Cañari people had a myth that is eerily but not entirely similar to that of the Christian Bible story of Noah's Arc. They had a myth similar to Noah and the Ark. Basically, there was this flood and two brothers were thought to be the only survivors, but they were going back to their home and they found that their home had been put back together and warm, cooked food was found on the table. One of the brothers left the house to go and start a new life somewhere else. The remaining brother, Urcocari, found the woman who had done this. She had a macaw face. He married her and thus, according to the myth they are the progenitors of all living things on the Earth today. This myth is very interesting considering the similarities of the two stories.
The Cañari people are a polytheistic group, many extraordinary things they would worship, like what they would call "The Supreme Creator", the moon, the snake and the Macaw (the Macaw is a beautiful type of blue jungle bird, like for example Blu in the movie Rio. He is a macaw.).
These are traditional Cañari musicians. As you can see, they use guitars, drums, flutes/recorders and I am actually not quite sure what the man standing up is playing.
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I believe that emotion is the way people feel, register and react to a situation.
Emotion plays a great role in the actions of the Cañari people. They were very near the Inca territory and therefore had a lot of fights and even wars with them. The Cañari people were constantly trying to outdo the Incas and their amazingly designed capital city. It's pretty obvious that jealousy, greed and envy were present and therefore, because of these emotions, the Cañari people constantly fought with the Incas.
WOK Questions:
How are the effects of the emotion of the Cañari people seen in the land that they once occupied?
How can we learn from the Cañari people's use of emotion, to impact our daily lives today?
