RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivians in rural areas and some cities started this Sunday, August 1, the month dedicated to "Pachamama" or Mother Earth, with ancestral rituals and offerings to give thanks for the goods achieved in the last year and to ask for renewed prosperity.
August is the month chosen for the offerings because it concludes the first agricultural season in the Andean world and, according to the indigenous communities, at this time of the year, Mother Earth "opens her mouth" to feed herself with offerings that reward the fruits given and those she will give in the future . . .
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