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La Paz, Bolivia – 02 August 2024
1. People at the summit rite to the Pachamama or Mother Earth
2. People blessing their offerings
3. Various of people burning offerings to Pachamama
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rudi Ticona, Bolivian believer of Pachamama:
"This rite that we are carrying out we always ask the Pachamama more than anything else, that the Achachila (spiritual protector) blesses us. Whether it be in that the family does not lack money, health or work. We always have heartfelt requests."
5. Ceremony
6. Various of people burning offerings
7. Offerings including flowers and drinks
8. Believers and Amauta (Indigenous people) blessing offerings
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Ilave Hidalgo, Amauta:
"As we see it. It is a need. A need for people, who need to prosper. Who also need to have something for the future. Also in health, in study, everything can also get ahead. You can’t do more. Because as you know if you are sick it is expensive. We ask for people, we also ask for their children, we ask for their children, we ask for them. Here we ask for Pachamama herself, for the crops that are always there, so that things (prices) don’t go up too."
10. Various of women preparing bonfires for burning .
STORYLINE:
Bolivians have kicked off the month of Pachamama, or Mother Earth, performing an ancient tradition to ask for a good harvest at a time when climate change is affecting agricultural cycles.
Throughout August, the mountains near the Andes mountain range become pilgrimage sites to carry out rituals with offerings in the highest places that the ancient inhabitants considered sacred.
About 30 kilometres (almost 19 miles) from La Paz and just over 4,200 meters (13,779 feet) above sea level, one area welcomed pilgrims on Friday with offerings to Pachamama.
A Christ with outstretched hands stands at the foot of a snow-less hill.
Below the cliffs, the Andean slopes extend to the Amazon rainforest.
In South America’s most indigenous country, a deep-rooted belief system in the Andean earth deity is intertwined in everyday life.
According to the Andean worldview, Pachamama wakes up hungry and thirsty in August after the dry winter season and must be fed and watered for the start of a new agricultural cycle to thank Mother Earth for the fruits received and ask for good harvests.
Experts say climate change, which punishes these high areas with frosts, droughts, and reduced snowfall, affect agricultural cycles that are frequently delayed, reducing harvests.
In a traditional neighborhood of La Paz called the “street of the witches,” colorful stalls overlooking the street this month provide various offerings for the “tables” that consist of homemade sweets, colored wool, aromatic resins, and llama fetuses with various meanings, including paper dollars that are used to call money.
All that and more are set to burn in small bonfires.
AP Video shot by Carlos Guerrero
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