What is it about?
what is it about?
The trilogy “The Instinct of Light” tells the adventures of Awi, a young yachac apprentice, who has the ability to travel to the ancestral worlds (Uku Pacha, the world above and Jahua Pacha, the world below). , must receive ancestral knowledge and defend his people from the disastrous revenge of Chusko, the shaman with a black soul. In this series of short novels we witness the growth and learning of a young man who is chosen by the ancestral spirits. In each story we become aware of the need to preserve ancestral knowledge and marvel at the magic that lives in the Ecuadorian Andes.
In this third book, Awi is transported to Uku Pacha, the world below, thanks to the tricks of a goblin. The goblin explains that there is a severe danger, because Chusko, the shaman with a black soul, plans to attack the town. Awi returns to his village and warns Taita Wairi. Together they plan to stop him, but a double attack occurs from the creatures, allies of Chusko. On the one hand, the old yachac is in danger of death. And on the other hand, the young apprentice must fulfill his destiny to save the lives of all the people in his town.
how it was made?
One time I attended a shamanism discussion in a cafeteria, given by a well-known shaman in the city. At the end of the session, the shaman approached my position, patted me on the shoulder blade and told me that I would have to see a lot in the path of light. That ignited a spark of creativity. That day came young Awi's first idea and his learning journey.
After writing Dead Time, Awi's learning is more intense. I wrote the closing of this series of Awi learning novels.
Genny De Bernardo, announcer and
Radio producer
The Instinct of Light, Dead Time and The Return of the Light make up an unmissable Andean fantasy trilogy. Cristian Londoño Proaño immerses us in our roots with a story where magic merges with daily life, respect for ancestors, communion with the land, acceptance of the incredible...The myths and legends with which we grew up take body in this trilogy that we hope continues to grow, because Awi has a lot to teach us. With his innocence and candor he shows us that it is possible to change a hostile environment to live in harmony. And I hope that's not fantasy! Thank you very much for these books!
It is a story that, due to its narration, takes you from one page to another without you realizing it. So visual that it makes you feel each of the events that happen in the novel. It transports you to a magical world, of legend and tradition with such softness that nothing seems strange, everything is possible, nothing becomes unreal even when it is fantasy
Rene Silva,
Writer and editor
A reader who will not abandon the journey set forth from the first page and that has depended exclusively on Londoño, its author, who assumes it as a final duty of his work.
Mónica Montero, Writer
and editor
All this wrapped in beautiful semantics, well managed and presented in such a way that the reader strives to understand each of the codes that this young writer shows us within the story.
What do readers think?
worlds with
books
(Argentina)
"The story presented by the Ecuadorian writer is the history of a culture. To read it as if it were a fantastic story would be to deprive it of its value. In this apparently simple world, very alien to the heavy rhythm that marks the cement, the inhabitants walk the earth in communion with the ancient gods and their environment. It is a world where Pachakamak orders the universe so that everything maintains its balance and so that each inhabitant plays a role in it. Awi, fulfilling his role, must face the darkness and let himself be guided by the light".
science fiction, fantasy and other imaginations
(Ecuador)
Intrigue, myths, magic intertwine to give shape to a story full of hope; not only in relation to the context of the novel but also in the rescue of the Andean language, the beliefs rooted in the land, the stories around a campfire, where those mythological beings appear that live in the darkest part of the forest and that, in a From minute to minute, they can appear to fill us with joy or with terrible omens.
