"The ch'ixi appeared on my cognitive horizon when I still did not know how to name what I had discovered through my efforts of reflection and practice, when I said 'that strange mixture that we are.'

I learned the word ch'ixi from the mouth of the Aymara sculptor Víctor Zapana, who explained to me what animals come out of those stones and why they are powerful animals. He told me ences ‘ch’ixinakax utxiwa’, that is, there are emphatically Ch’ixi entities, which are powerful because they are indeterminate, because they are neither black nor white, they are both at the same time. The serpent is from above and at the same time from below; it is male and female; It does not belong to heaven or earth, but it inhabits both spaces, as rain or as an underground river, as lightning or as a mine vein.

On the premises of an ethical compass and the equality of intelligences and cognitive powers - certainly expressible in a diversity of languages ​​and epistemes - a planetary Ch'ixi epistemology may perhaps be woven that will enable us in our common tasks as a human species, but to at the same time it will root us even more in our communities and local territories ”.