The Tusug, Lajas, predecessors of the scissors dancers, were considered Andean priests, soothsayers, sorcerers and healers, which highly respected by the people when the Spaniards arrived to banish the ancestral agricultural customs to establish the mining mita, were also the main persecuted, as were reluctant to abandon their ancestral traditions. Supaypa wawan then called ¨ which means son of the devil so they took refuge in the most inhospitable heights Mountains. As the Spaniards failed to clear the Andean worldview and mythology, they agreed to integrate them into society provided danced in honor of the Western god, that is to participate in the rituals of Catholicism with which subject the people. The origins of this dance is also very important to point out from time immemorial before take the current form was created to entertain and perform worship, which was based on the form of farm work and liturgical rituals and way of life of man society and nature. This dance and songs executed reasons for planting, harvesting, shearing llamas. But more perfectly it originates in the history of the Incas. Years had already run the tusuj dance). Accompaniment of flute and tinya Along with the instrument related to the work of planting and shearing of llamas. According to some historians and anthropologists try to link or relate to the song of suffering Onqoy Taki) movement mid-sixteenth century 1560-1570) holding that the dance emerges in this movement of resistance to Spanish imposition of our cultural patterns, proving the origin PRE Hispanic dance has a conception of religious magic through Wamanes in the worldview of the ancient Peruvian Andean man).
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