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EveryParampara

Pachamama

The Andean Mother Earth, honoured with offerings at planting, harvest and the start of any work.

A pattern drawn for this page, not a picture of Pachamama.

Also: mother earth

Pachamama is the Mother Earth of the Andes, a living presence who feeds and shelters her people and must be thanked. Quechua and Aymara communities give her offerings of coca leaves, chicha, food, flowers and sweets, buried in the ground or burned in a bundle called a despacho, at planting, at harvest, before building a house and on 1 August, when the earth is said to be open and hungry. A first sip of any drink is poured on the ground for her. In Bolivia and Ecuador the rights of Pachamama have been recognised in law. The relationship is reciprocal: she gives, and she is given back.

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

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