Los muertos y los diablos entre los laymi de Bolivia

Abstract

Attitudes towards the dead in pre-hispanic times are in stark contrast to present-day beliefs and ritual of the ayllu laymi of Northern Potos?. While ev?den ce from sixteenth and seven teen th cen tury sources makes clear the central role occupied by the mummies and other relics in Andean worship, today the dead are feared as much as revered. However laymi beliefs also indicate that the dead play a major part in the regeneration of the fertility of the soil, and that their ritual calendar is organized around the two major feasts of the dead -Todos Santos and Carnaval? which also announce the beginning of the agricultural cycle and its conclusion in the festival of First Fruits.

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