Friday 23 January 2015

Inti (The Sun) rehonoured in Bolivia


 Native Bolivian culture makes a come back.
 http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/22/394307/Bolivias-Morales-begins-3rd-term


'The new term of President Morales will expire in 2020.
In another ceremony prior to the formal event at the country’s legislature, Bolivia’s indigenous people, politicians and members of social movements gathered on Wednesday at the pre-Incan ruins in Tiahuanaco,  to mark the beginning the president’s third presidential term.
Tiahuanaco was picked for the inaugural ceremony since it represents what is said to be the “roots” of Andean and Amazonian cultures.'

----also---
'After Morales’ inauguration in 2006, the newspaper Los Tiempos of Cochabamba wrote:

“Evo Morales received the political power of the nation with a spectacular display of religious rituals related to Pachamama (Mother Earth), the gods Inti and Achachilas and all the divinities of the native religion in the times of Collasuyo [an Inca territory south of Bolivia]. He honored Mother Earth for receiving its fruits, the sun and the high mountains for their rays and riches, and the creeks that fertilize his beloved and venerated Earth.

“The government palace became the stage for those Andean religious rituals. The performers appeared to be more Aymara Indian priests than government authorities. The government of Morales made a syncretism between the native Indian and the Catholic religions. On one day, he was the witch doctor of the milluchadas (Indian rituals to call the spirits from the dead); on another day he was leading prayers to the saints in Catholic churches.” (Los Tiempos, June 20, 2006)

Since the Catholic Hierarchy had opposed the new text of the constitution, Morales attacked the Bolivian Church at the World Social Forum held in Belém, Brazil, from January 27 to February 1, 2009. Indeed, he declared:

“There are new enemies in Bolivia. They are not just the rightist-oriented press but also groups in the Catholic Church, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church who are enemies of our peaceful reforms. … I want to tell you that just as we shout, ’Another world is possible,’ so also we will say, ‘Another faith, another religion, another church is also possible.’” (Los Tiempos, January, 30, 2009) 

 http://traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i99ht_002_TribalismBolivia.html
 http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/bolivia.html
Good luck with that. 

I can only hope, by Daltor, that Inti becomes the state religion of Bolivia.
There is some infantile 'mother' Ulak worship alas, as with the Roman Catholics but on the whole good things.

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