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US Trips | Overseas Travel | Voyages Lima | Cuzco | Sacsayhuaman | Countryside | Urubamba Valley | Machu Picchu | Pisac | Quito | The Galapagos, Ecuador City | People | Food | Faith | Textiles Cuzco Faith |
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On Palm Sunday many citizens of Cuzco visit their loved ones to decorate their graves. |
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Christian and Native American belief combine to create a new iconology. |
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| Skirted Christ | Monk's bedroom mural | Rooftop | |||||
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Curanderismo is a form of folk medicine practiced in the Andes. This healing art is an amalgam of Inca culture, medieval European witchcraft, early Arabic medicine, Christian rituals, scientific medicine and modern beliefs about psychic phenomena and spiritualism. |
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| The curandero | Offering wine to Mother Earth | A prayer for good health and well being | |||||
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