Tinku
Tinku
Tinku
TINKU (ESPAOL)
Mtodos de combates
Los combatientes entre los que se destacan, son los Warakaku (Honda; en
Quechua) y Makhanaku (una de las peleas ms parecidas al judo). El Tinku es
una pelea de cuerpo a cuerpo estimulada por el alcohol. Son adiestrados desde
nios en lucha a muerte, ellos llevan la cabeza cubierta de vestimenta de cuero
como un casco tan duro como metal, las manos enguantadas en garras y aristas
de bronce. Con increble destreza fsica se trenzan, aplicando y replicando duros
golpes entre los oponentes, un combate similar al boxeo.
Arbitraje
ltimamente las peleas estn siendo controladas y vigiladas por un rbitro, que
son las autoridades mximas de estas comunidades; el Jilakata y el Alcalde
Mayor.
El baile del Tinku es una danza folklrica pops que es una expresin artstica del
Tinku. Nace de la representacin del ritual ceremonial del Tinku llevado a cabo en
la comunidades del norte de Potos.
TINKU (ENGLISH)
Tinku is a pre-Inca ritual that is practiced annually for several days in the
communities of the northern region of Potos department. Tinku originates from the
region inhabited by the Laymans and Jukumanis.
It is practiced as a ceremonial rite mixing with the custom, philosophy and religion
of the native peoples for their mystical devotion. Within the Tinku there is also
music and dance (the communities often start marching to the rhythms of Jula-
Jula).
Methods of combats
The fighters among which stand out are the "Warakaku" (Honda, in Quechua) and
"Makhanaku" (one of the fights most similar to judo). The Tinku is an alcohol-fueled
melee fight. They are trained from children in the fight to the death, they wear their
heads covered in leather garments as hard as metal, hands clawed in claws and
bronze edges. With incredible physical dexterity, braiding, applying and replicating
hard blows between opponents, a fight similar to boxing.
According to the traditions, the fighter who has been defeated must shed his blood
with abundance as a sacrifice or offering, this, for Mother Earth, commonly known
by these communities as Pachamama, so that in that year the harvest will be
abundant [ Citation required]
This ceremonial rite now constitutes a combat between members of the above-
mentioned communities and is carried out among men, women "Imilla wawas"
(single women) and children of both communities. The clashes correspond to an
established social order ie the men to be able to be heard by other males and to be
able to marry must have participated in this rite.
Arbitration
Lately the fights are being controlled and watched by an umpire, who are the
maximum authorities of these communities; The Jilakata and the Mayor.
In recent years with the presence of police and neighbors who organize their "civil
police," they have better controlled the violence that occurs during the event.
In these encounters many times were used in the middle of the hands stones that
made more deadly the blow in the adversary, at the moment this procedure is
prohibited.
The Tinku dance is a pops folk dance that is an artistic expression of the Tinku. It is
born of the representation of the ceremonial ritual of the Tinku carried out in the
communities of the north of Potos.
At the moment Tinku is danced in different events and festivities in Bolivia, is
danced in the Carnival of Oruro, lately in other countries where there are Bolivian
immigrants. Tinku music is part of the repertoire of various musical groups such as
Los Kjarkas, Kala Marka and many more.