Horacio Salinas of Inti-Illimani, in his book of memoirs "La cancion en el sombrero," reminisces about the band's first extended visit to the country of Ecuador, where they made music at the Capilla del Hombre (Quito). The story was related to Inti-Illimani, and Salinas summarizes it in his book:

"In the 1950's.... some illustrious performing artists came together....in order to create one of the loveliest, most sacred Ecuadoran songs. The well-known Ecuadoran musical duo, Benitez and Valencia, had arrived with Guayasamin [whose property it was], Ecuador's principal poet Jorge Enrique Adoum, and other intellectuals. One of them, on the spot, composed a strophe concerning of the ritual of burying the dead with some of their vital organs enclosed in an earthen jar. Later the poet came and added another "copla," after that Valencia wrote one, and so this admirable song was completed with its dance rhythm, called "Earthen Vase."   p. 75. Second edition, 2014.