Andes
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Story
The Condemned Were Deer
The inhabitants of communities near the city of Cusco tell that, besides being true, their stories served to protect their…
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Fiestas
Qoyllur Rit’i – Inti Alabado – Tayankani
In the Andes mountains of Cusco, every year more than 100,000 people come with music and dance in pilgrimage to…
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Customs
Bells’ importance in Offerings to the Earth
The offering or payment to the earth, as it is known, is a very important ritual for Andean people. It…
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Story
The Witch of the Andes (Achkay)
One of the stories that parents tell their children more than others in the Andes is that of ACHKAY. She…
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Customs
Weather Precautions in Cusco
Every year in the months of January, February and March the rainy season comes to the mountains of Peru. It…
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Art
Cutichikuy Song: Fun Counterpoint Between Ladies and Gentlemen of the Sierra
This is a very beautiful popular song these days that represents the culture in the Andes and the counterpoint between…
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Art
So Much in Love, the Great Huayno Llaulillay
Afternoons, glasses of beer rise and clink together over plank wood floors and hand-crafted wooden tables and chairs. Men gather…
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Commentary
How peruvian plants / herbs / flowers are part of everyday health and beauty?
In the Peruvian Andes we live in a close relationship with nature, the Pachamama, also known as our mother earth,…
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Culture
Quechua grows around the world
My friend Tanner tells me that if you only speak one language, it is like you only see in one…
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Commentary
Tinku, an Andean Ideology of Food
Food fills the plate and the stomach, but it is somehow more. It is put together according to the ideals…
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