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Celebration
The Yawar Fiesta
Yawar Fiesta is a Quechua name that in Spanish means “The blood feast”. It is a cultural tradition that has…
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Commentary
Condors Fly Freely in Utah and in the Andes of Peru
This weekend took me to southern Utah, with its ancient rock formations with names such as “the Great White Throne”…
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Commentary
The Magical Stones of the Condor
Walter Coraza Morveli In the Andes, the condor is considered a sacred bird. This is not simply because the Incas…
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Folklore
The Story of Three Statues and the Lake
Once upon a time there was a city that was underneath an immense lake. With the passage of years, half…
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Travel
Machu Picchu’s Temple of the Condor
Machu Picchu is so marvelous that it challenges our imagination to think how it might have been constructed. This city…
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Customs
The Magic of the Andean Condor
The Andean worldview considers nature and people as a whole, a whole in which they both live related to each…
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Condors and Stone, A Conversation
Some stories tell of how potatoes came from stones, originally, and how one of the first Incas, Ayar Uchu became…
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