01785nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653000800043653002200051653003300073653001000106653002000116100001500136700001800151700001600169700001900185245010300204856011800307490000700425520110300432022002001535                                       d10aBos10aFarming practices10aIntangible cultural heritage10aMyths10aRural territory1 aS.R. Arias1 aM.C.Z. Torres1 aH.Q. Vargas1 aW.G.J. García00aMythical imaginary in rural agricultural practices on properties of la vieja river basin, Colombia  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78650457312&partnerID=40&md5=af43af568950e6e1005ea90b66d6da310 v103 aThis work analyzes the mythological belief or superstitions associated with farming and conservation activities in nine rural productive units on the river basin La Vieja, Colombia. The elderly people recognize the influence of multiple stories over productive and environmental conditions that are an important part of success or fail on their rural activities. The beliefs were classified by their functionality and the activities they regulate. 14 myths that have any on the influence activities of cultivate, breeding, conservation and social regulation were described. The main element for discussion was the functionality, considering its relationship the distribution and application in the subsystems of productions in the farms with the age, the gender and the hierarchy position on the family structure. It was conclude that the flow of information between expert systems and systems of popular knowledge helps to construct an adapted system. An example is the use, in cattle farms, of different moon phases during the artificial insemination to ensure the pregnancy and sex of the breed.  a15155994 (ISSN)