TAWA is the chapter with which this Willakuy begins, and it starts with the number four, because that is where consciousness and memories begin to awaken, take root, and grow—where we begin to leave childhood behind and start to develop and mature in accordance with who we truly are inside.
TAWA is the number with which Andean culture and many cultures of the past begin; that is why this culture is also called “TAWA-INTI-SUYUCHU,” a numerical sequence that summarizes the four movements of “TaytaInti” and the four movements of “MamaKilla,” whose movements of “Light” and “shadow” combine in the “geometric” figure of the octagon, which gives us awareness of the movements of the octaves or the “oc-tawas,” the movement of the eights or the kuchas.
The Qhychwa terms suyu or suyus refer to the four major territorial divisions of Andean culture, which were grouped into their various provinces or huamanis (in Quechua: wamani). The collective term for the four suyos was “Tawantinsuyu.” Meaning of territorial demarcation or district: Suyuchu.
Because this initial TAWA chapter is so long, I have divided its content into four parts, or four suyus. The first and second parts have already been published, while the remaining two are still in progress.