| Sumario: | Rite is a border territory between the pagan and the sacred. Its effectiveness modulates the relationship of man with reality. It is a semantic system that encompasses the structure of the executing community through of a series of practices that are arranged around a specific objective. Santa Cruz, in Guamote, Ecuador; and Moya, in Huancavelica, Perú, are two communities whose main rites allow us to read that relationship of man with reality through a ceremonial display of actions which appeal to the collective memory as the main repository for its reproduction. The knowledge that emerges from there gains validity insofar as it is useful to the daily life of the community members. The carnival of Santa Cruz and the marking of cattle in Moya are rituals in which the western symbolic universe and Andean rationality construct a language capable of revealing the ceremonial dimension of the community, before which the rite acts as a guiding social force that allows for collective coexistence in these two high-Andean sectors of the region.
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