Esquila de un llamo

On a stone table (altar) the Wilancha is performed, it is a sacrifice of blood, perfume, coca leaves, drops of alcohol and prayers. It consists of a ritual meal made with the sacrificed meat, along with traditional dances.

Sometimes a Yatiri consults with the hill: in loud voice, as if he was the condor who speaking, who in this ceremony represents the hill.

In these rituals the community expects the hill's spirit to give them the benefit of its productive waters and to protect them. Pachamama is honored in each activity or celebration and is offered coca leaves, drops of alcohol or whatever suits the occasion.

Foto: Pachallampe, invocando a la pachamama

The livestock fertility festival. This is celebrated in January or February, during the fertile summer rain season, when grass is abundant and llamas are born.

The cult takes place in the livestock corral and it is there also, that the Arco of life is raised.

Pachamama is the Earth Mother, celebrated as a universal fertility mother, who feeds all life on the planet.

Another festivity, which honors Pachamama for giving food and life, is the Pachallampe.

This ritual consists of a dance, which simulates the sowing of seed potatoes.

This festivity takes place twice a year: in May, for the harvest, and in November, for seeding. Every Pachallampe has a captain and is guided by the community.

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