Pachamama Day: Celebration of Mother Earth

Friends of the CC Indigenous People of Argentina are performing a ritual in honor of Pachamama. Pachamama; Mother Earth, kusilla kusilla. Our Community, the Kolla people, celebrates Pachamama all August, with an ancestral ceremony, offering cooked food (corn, beans, harvest) drinks (chicha), in abundance. To give to Mother Earth, giving back everything that she offers us in abundance, such as life, air, rivers, the song of birds. During Pachamama Day, participants wear very colorful typical Andean clothing. During August in South America, people and nations of the Andes celebrate the awakening of Pachamama, after her rest during the winter, beginning a new year. In the celebration of Pachamama, everything that one loves and the best that one has is offered to the Earth. This ceremony is full of thanks to the great provider mother, for all that she gave and for all that was taken from her. It is a new cycle of renewal.