INTI RAYMI

INTI RAYMI

The Inti Raymi (Quechua 'festival of the Sun') was an ancient Andean religious ceremony in the Peru-South, in honor of Inti (Sun God) that every winter solstice took place in the Andes.

The Inti Raymi was the most important of the four festivals in the Inca empire. Lasted 15 days, which were dances and sacrifices. In 1572 the Viceroy Francisco de Toledo (1515-1584) forbade considering it a pagan and contrary to the Catholic faith ceremony. 

The Inti Raymi still is celebrated as syncretic rite in many Andean communities. The set includes related festivities throughout the month of June and part of July, each city its own rites and customs, daily life as a result of the celebrations would stop. At the time of the Incas, this ceremony was held at the Auca leg (now Square of Cusco) square.

On the appointed day the Inca and his relatives waited barefoot sunrise in the square, squat with open arms, received to the sun. Then the Inca, two glasses of gold, offered chicha: the glass he held in his left hand drank their relatives; the right was poured and poured into a tinajón gold.

In the world of rites and ceremonies dating back to ancient times and need only define that at all times the garments, acts objects were very sui generis typical of the time.