Haylli Pachamama
Pachamama is mother earth and female principle as diety. Coca is an integral part of the life and celebration here... not as a refined drug cocaine, but as the coca leaf for chewing or offering with well wishes or health herb or mild stimulant when working at the high altitudes of the Andes. Pachacama is the complement... power or energy universal. We celebrated with music, dance and ritual Saturdays in November.
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Making music and dancing

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Preparing the offering and burning the Kintus (offerings of Coca)

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Painting of the offering to the Apus (powers of the mountains)

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Fairy with Coca

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Shaman dancing with the rest of the participants