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The following article maintains a constant discussion between relational ontologies, local Aymara ontologies, based on ethnographic data collected in recent years. The ambiguity of the Aymara term khanapa, which designates tutelary beings and at the same time cosmic places, is intervened from the home altar, domestic space in which one catholic image is present, which refer us to a place where part of my ancestry comes from. The relationships with these being based on correspondence that allow us to perceive the landscape as something alive or vivified, are portrayed in the festivities dedicated to these images in the town of Peñas. On the other hand, these relationships allow us to appreciate the transformations that took place with this being that we are dealing with in this article until she took the form that composes the altar of the house. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]