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 first book, Awi discovers his ancestral powers and his destiny. At first he doesn't accept it, but then he becomes aware. He must pass some tests and learn about ancestral knowledge, from the hand of the old yachac Taita Wairi. The spell of eternal sleep breaks into the town. Awi and Taita Wairi fight to reverse it. In the end, they learn terrible news: El Chusko seeks to resurrect and take revenge.
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.
The first thing I did was research the Andean worldview and shamanism. Then I imagined the world of Awi, the town and the figure of evil. It coincided that scholarships were called to promote creation from the Ministry of Culture. I decided to present the proposal. A few months later, I won a scholarship and started writing the story of The Light Instinct.
Genny De Bernardo, announcer and
Radio producer
I loved the way magic and everyday life merge.
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 is wrapped up in a 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 story of a culture. To read it as if it were a fantastic tale would be to take away its value. In this apparently simple world, very far from the heavy rhythm of cement, the inhabitants walk the earth in communion with the ancient gods and their surroundings. It is a world where Pachakamak orders the universe so that everything maintains its balance and so that each inhabitant fulfills 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.
