Abstract

Before Spanish invasion of the Andes, there existed major themes or motifs of collective knowledge about myths, politics, memory, and other topics, that could circulate and be transmitted in distinct media, such as oral, visual or dramatic representations. I propose that a particular story or cycle, for example, the expansion of Tawantinsuyu, could have been represented simultaneously in different media, each of them with its own logic and syntaxis. This type of practice could equally have served later to circulate other Andean narratives, such as narrative cycle of Inca Atahualpa's death.