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El Alto, Aug 1 (EFE).- Bolivians on Sunday began the month dedicated to Pachamama, or Mother Earth, with ancestral rituals and offerings to give thanks for the past year and ask for renewed prosperity.August is the month chosen for the offerings because the first agricultural season in the Andean world concludes and, according to the indigenous communities, at this time of the year Mother Earth "opens her mouth" to feed herself with offerings.(Camera: GINA BALDIVIESO)SHOT LIST: RITUALS AND OFFERINGS DELIVERED TO MOTHER EARTH AT THE WARACO APACHETA SITE, ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF EL ALTO (BOLIVIA).SOUND BITES: MARIANO CONDORI (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONS: This month has always been for our ancestors, for our grandparents, the month of August is called Marani, or Kanipatzi, the mouth opens. Why? Because when they do the sowing in the field, the plow is done, the land is broken and the toads appear. That is called 'marani' and all of that we worship. 'Marani' are those who give fertility to the land and also the blessing to each man or woman who offers a table
La Paz, Mar 7 (EFE).- Voters covered from head to toe, offerings to the Pachamama or Mother Earth, candidates arriving to vote by bicycle or on crutches and others who forgot their identity card to be able to vote were some of the curious happenings in the subnational elections held Sunday in Bolivia. (Camera: YOLANDA SALAZAR)SHOT LIST: POLLING STATIONS IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.
La Cumbre, Sep 21 (EFE) .- An Andean ritual on a Bolivian mountain on Monday welcomed a new season of food sowing and fertility of Pachamama or Mother Earth and asked the "apus" or mountain deities to expel COVID-19 from the country.The apacheta or offering point at La Cumbre, near La Paz, was the place chosen for the ritual in which the acting deputy minister of decolonization, Leonardo Montaño, participated with a group of mostly indigenous people.(Camera: MARTIN ALIPAZ)SHOT LIST: ANDEAN RITUAL CARRIED OUT IN LA CUMBRE, BOLIVIA. SOUND BITES: VICE MINISTER OF DECOLONIZATION LEONARDO MONTAÑO FLORES (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATIONS:We are asking our wakas, our pachas so that the production in the nine departments begins to generate in good management, at a good time, in the nine departments. Since this disease has scared us a lot. But from today is the time to build this country and strengthen little by little with the energies of Pachamama.
Bolivians honour Mother Earth in an annual celebration known as Day of the Pachamama. Bob Mezan reports.
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Pope Francis prays at the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in the community of Maskwacis, Canada, before visiting a former residential school where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over decades at the Catholic-run institutions. IMAGES
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