ABSTRACT
In this paper, the author shall discuss the ritual performance and song of the Andean pastoralists. From the context of the song the people can derive that incense, chuya, wira, llampu arid coca kintu are material representations of the concept of karnaq. The conception of kamaq in disposal is, so to speak, entropic, and the ritual may be understood as a periodic attempt to repress the inevitable increasing process of entropy. The three beings present in the conception and consciousness of the ritual performers are never referred to directly in the sung discourse, though they may also be present in the case of the invocatory discourse or the performance. The three beings of man/animal/god denotated in the ordinariness of human experiences are reduced to the two beings of 'I' and 'you' in the ritual experience, which is nothing less than a poetic world.
