Pitx'i

Xavi Hurtado. 37 min. Colombia

"Pit'xi" means companion (referring to "Ksxa'w" that means so much spirit as dream), is a companion guide when you dream, a messenger between worlds. In the Nasa indigenous culture (Colombia), the "The Wälas" (shamans) carried out some traditional practices with the mental image (produced by the dream (Ksxa'w) and vision (I´khwe´sx)) that create a sacred territory more visible than the eyes are seeing. Around this moves everything, time, culture and political resistance. In the Nasa culture imagination has got the power.

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Pi´txi es el acompañante (se refiere al ksxa´w (este significa sueño y espiritu)), intermediario o emisario entre mundos. En la cultura Nasa, en Colombia, diversas prácticas ancestrales con la imagen (especialmente el sueño (Kxsa´w) y la visión (I´khwe´sx)) crean una geografía sagrada del territorio alrededor de la cual se mueve el tiempo, todas las narrativas de la cultura y la realidad tangible.