Karnawał górników w Boliwii - Redux
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A group of miners in the process of extracting the heart of a sacrificed llama, in which they will read the future and afterward take inside the mine as an offering to the devil, God of the mine. Potosi, Bolivia. 28 January 2016. The sacrifice of the llama is carried out with the family amongst the children who bear witness of the ceremony as a very natural process. In order to be present during the sacrifice I had to share with the miners and their families for several hours, drinking alcohol and chewing coca leaves. The customs and beliefs of Andean people are a hybrid of catholic religion and old beliefs. One of its highest expressions is within the Bolivian mining culture that worships the Pacha Mama (Mother Earth), the Celestial Divinity personified in the Catholic God and "El Tio" of the mine (Satan). To the latter, who rules the underworld, they make offerings with sacrifices of llamas inside the mines to ask for protection in the depths of the mountain and abundant mineral.
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2016-01-28
Dany Krom/Archivolatino/Redux/EAST NEWS
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Dany Krom/Archivolatino/Redux
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