In the 1612 Aymara-Spanish dictionary of Ludovico Bertonio, the phrase Tahksi kala is listed as "piedra fundamental" or "foundation stone" possibly alluding to the origin story of the Inca that the Sun and Moon were born in the lake.
There are references to this dance in the works of Diego González Holguín and Ludovico Bertonio, Gonzáles Holguín compared this dance with the saynata and the siracusa, with the meaning of a “laughter thing”.
Sent to Peru six years later, he worked principally among the Aymara of southern Peru and of Bolivia.
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Ludovico Bertonio (1552, Rocca Contrada – Lima, 3 August 1625) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to South America.
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