Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
Pilgrimages and ritual processions in the Andes. In the Andes, pilgrimages have a long history: several ethnohistorical documents confirm that this kind of ritual existed long before the Conquest. For their part, certain present-day pilgrimages, beyond the veneration of the Virgin or of a Christ, di...
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| description | Pilgrimages and ritual processions in the Andes. In the Andes, pilgrimages have a long history: several ethnohistorical documents confirm that this kind of ritual existed long before the Conquest. For their part, certain present-day pilgrimages, beyond the veneration of the Virgin or of a Christ, display shared and disturbing coincidences with ancient rituals. In a different context, prehispanic sacrificial rites, known as capacocha, involved considerable displacements of the participants. They were of two kinds: the Inca ones, which culminated in the sacrifice of young and handsome children; the coastal ones, which required the use of human or animal blood. |
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