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Qoyllur Rit'i
Quispicanchis (Cuzco)
Date: May (1st week)
Each year the people of the district of Ocongate (Quispicanchis)
perform a ritual whose external aspect appears to be the
image of Christ, but whose real objective is to bring
Man closer to Nature.
he ritual, associated with the fertility of the land and
the worship of Apus, the spirits of the mountains, forms
part of the greatest festival of native Indian nations
in the hemisphere: Qoyllur Rit'i. The main ceremony is
held at the foot of Mount Ausangate, at 4,700 meters,
where temperatures often plunge below freezing.
The ritual brings thousands of pilgrims, including
shepherds, traders and the merely curious who gather at
the shrine at Sinakara. Popular belief has it that the
infant Christ, dressed as a shepherd, appeared to a
young highland Indian boy, Marianito Mayta, and they
quickly became friends. When Mayta's parents found them
dressed in rich tunics, they informed the local parish
priest, Pedro de Landa, who attempted in vain to capture
the infant Christ who had disappeared and left behind
only a stone. Marianito died immediately, and the image
of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i appeared on the stone.
Today, the festival starts off with the day of the Holy
Trinity, when more than 10,000 pilgrims climb to the
snowline, accompanied by all sorts of dancers in full
costume (chauchos, qollas, pabluchas or ukukus) portray
various mythical characters. The ukukus, or bears, are
the guardians of the Lord and the Apu mountain spirits
and apachetas, stone cairns built along the way by
pilgrims to atone for their sins. The ukukus maintain
order during religious ceremonies. A group of hefty
queros, members of what is probably Peru's purest
Quechua community, dress up as pabluchas and set out for
the mountaintop, at 6,362 meters in search of the Snow
Star which is reputedly buried within the mountain.
On their way back down to their communities, they haul
massive blocks of ice on their backs for the symbolic
irrigation of their lands with holy water from the
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