{"id":7165,"date":"2023-01-05T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:24:51","slug":"you-complete-me-an-andean-conception-of-male-female-duality-in-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2023\/you-complete-me-an-andean-conception-of-male-female-duality-in-relationships\/7165\/","title":{"rendered":"“You Complete Me” An Andean conception of male-female duality in relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, when the sports agent searching for deeper meaning from work and life has his epiphany and races back to\u00a0his estranged newlywed bride?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

“You Complete Me,” Jerry utters, coining one of the all-time stereotypical expressions of true love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement scratches the surface of a less overtly romantic Andean concept that has shaped religious ideologies, and influenced social organizations and interpersonal relationships between men and women in Peru for thousands of years: duality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ancient dance of male-female duality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is a concept that opposing ideas, such as life and death, day and night, and the cosmos itself are divided into complementary parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The harmony of the universe depends on the controlled inter-relationship between polarities that link humans to both a spiritual world and an animate world, in which mountains, rivers, the sun, moon and stars are living entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Chronicler<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The duality of male and female is perhaps the most fundamental of these polarities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is still evident in indigenous, Quechua-speaking households today. Ethnographers discuss it in their writings as an integral facet of the Andean worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attainment of harmonic existence only comes when the complimentary pairs are matched and there is a fusion of opposites, “like the warmi (woman) and qhari (man), each of which contains the other,” wrote Catherine J. Allen in her book  The hold life has: Coca and cultural identity in an Andean community.* <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, did Tom Cruise’s character, Jerry, know the deeper implications of what he was saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Allen’s book examines cultural identity in Sonqo, a small indigenous community near Cusco, where she lived in the 1980s and late 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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