Monday, January 8, 2007

Inca tradition - PACHAMAMA

Every year all peruvian indigeans make an offer to PACHAMAMA. Pachamama is the Inca Mother Earth. So, on august, they open a whole and put inside many things like sweets, food... They also sacrifice llamas and alpacas and put inside the whole their dead bodies, as a payment for using the Earth.
Other Inca tradition is that they never put hair in the garbage, they burn it. Otherwise someone could steal their ideas.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

That's funny, that "hair thing"! My hair is weaker and falling, and probably that's the reason why I am lacking ideas lately -- probably my cleaning lady has been stealing them! ;-) On the other hand,
hairdressers are not known to be selling ideas, ;-) although they are for sure not dumb considering the large amounts of money they make...

kisses,
Tita

Anonymous said...

Ola Edgar!

Pois... finalmente a ultima semana na escola. Como o tempo passa! Mas lendo o que tens feito por ai, parece que foi uma experiencia unica.
E depois... la vais tu viajar por esses lugares fantasticos. Teras que me dar umas dicas para quando eu decidir fazer o mesmo.
Abraco, David

Edgar said...

Sim, é verdade, tem sido uma experiência única, inesquecível e bastante enriquecedora. Quando começar a viajar espero continuar a poder colocar algumas fotos aqui no blog. Sendo assim já ficam as dicas!