andeans worldviews

The Andean culture was very unique in how they saw the world. They had four main ways on how they saw the world. Those four ways were collectively, reciprocity, transformation, and essence. This four types of views explain why the Andeans did things how they did.

The first type of view is collectively and this one doesn’t focus as much on what an individual did but it focuses on the person’s role. The things an individual did weren’t as important as what he brought to the table for the entire group. This is one of the things that I believe made them stronger because instead of only having one input there were various.

The other one is reciprocity an it is viewed as one part is countered by and connected by another. An example were they might have gotten inspired by was in the appearance of the southern hemisphere sky. They saw how the star to star constellation was joined by dark areas which also seemed to from shapes of animals.

Transformation was another one of these worldviews. Like many other cultures the Andeans believe in a form of transformation from plane to plane. They saw death and life in the same cycle were one needed the other. The person and the soul just transform from the living state to the spiritual state. Another example were the different season of the year constantly changing and transforming. They also saw in the sky how the stars and the planets moved and appeared and then disappearing again and again.

The last one is essence and this view has to do with what is in the inside rather than whets on the outside. This allowed them to explore deeply into thing instead of right away dumping it. This brought meaning to weirdest of art pieces because it wasn’t what you see on top it was what was trying to show in the inside. It kind of hard to explain it in words especially if you’re talking about an art piece but there are art pieces that if you analyze it hard enough you can see beyond the top appearance and more of the essence.

We all wear Masks

The Aztecs had plenty of mask but they rarely used them while in the present day it's rare if someone doesnt have one on. In our daily routine we tend to have interaction with a variety of people. These may include classmates, teachers, friends, co-workers and just strangers. Depending on who you're with is the mask your going to be wearing. I think that the reason why people do this is because of the fear of being judged in a negative way. Everyone is always self-conscience of what people think, or might think, if they do something uncommon around people. I see wearing a mask is sort of like a safe spot. while your wearing the mask your being like person you are suppose to act like.An example i could relate to is working in a restaurant. When your at a restaurant you usually dont see a sad or mad waiter? that because they're all wearing their masks that say "i have no worries, Im so happy, and im here to serve you" and thats what people expect. It's a business. Ive had my days when am not feeling all that perky but ones i get to my job i put on my smile and dont take it of until my shift is over. but the way i see it is that its not the customers fault if im mad and i shouldnt take it out on them. i think other reasons people put on mask is when they want to fit in with certain people or friends. Sometimes its to impress someone, like a girl, you might pretend to like a certain type of music or something in that area. I think that sometime its not such a bad thing when people were mask because sometimes that way you prevent yourself from hurting someone feeling by being to truthful. Its hard to really know who you are if your always wearing masks and just the thought the people wont like the real you doenst help. but if your always wearing a mask then your never truly you and you might never be truly happy.