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Practical spirituality and sacred mountains
(Ghandi Peace Foundation, 2015)
This paper has three parts. The first part will summarise two decades of personal research in the fields of high altitude archaeology and anthropology of sacred mountains and provide an overview of the multiplicity of ways ...
Practical spirituality and a journey with sacred mountains
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
The industrialized western civilization has been trained to look at mountains merely in connection to the resources that they offer to the humans: the various minerals, the glaciers as reservoirs of water, the forested ...
Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A study of the world´s highest archaeological sites
(Universidad de California. Instituto Cotsen de Arqueología, 2010)
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 20,000 feet high. ...
Andean Ritual Experts and Native Views on Sacred Mountains and Priests
(The Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018)
Modern Andean ritual experts have been described as a combination of priests and shamans, sorcerers and diviners. They are likely to lead fairly ordinary lives, performing their sacred duties in harmony with the usual ...
Qoyllur Riti: Etnografía de un peregrinaje ritual de raíz incaica por las altas montañas del sur de Perú
(Centro Argentino de Etnología Americana, 2007-12)
The sanctuary Señor de la Estrella de Nieve (Star of Snow Lord -Qoyllur Riti) is located 4700 meters above sea level, in the Vilcanota Range of the Peruvian Andes. The festivity of Qoyllur Ritti is one of the most important ...
A sacred mountain and the art of "Impression Management"
(International Mountain Society, 2010)
The installation of a radio communication antenna on a sacred mountain, Mount Quimal, led to an interaction between a mining corporation and Atacameño people in
northern Chile. The present article focuses on how language ...
Architecture and sacred landscape in pre-hispanic peru: A comparative approach from a gis perspective
(Springer NaturePE, 2021)
One of the most relevant characteristics of the “landscape-friendly societies” is their ability to recognize aesthetic attributes to portions of the territory that exceed their functional purpose. In ancient Peru, there ...
Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern NorwayMontañas sagradas y arte rupestre ártico en el Norte de Noruega
(Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Historia Universal, 2021-08)
En la cosmovisión de los pobladores Sami, las montañas son entidades vivientes vinculadas a las deidades atmosféricas, los ancestros y los rituales chamánicos. Los picos pueden ser nombrados como animales en virtud de ...
Realm of the Ice-cloaked Mountain Gods : high in the Andes hope is melting away
(The Explorers Club, 2007-12)
For centuries, if not millennia, people of the Andes have venerated their ice-capped mountains, which harbor within their glaciers the sacred waters upon which all life in the region is dependent. It is a tradition evident ...
Sacred Mountains, Ceremonial Sites and Human Sacrifice among the Incas
(University of Texas Press, 2006-12)
Las ofrendas más importantes presentadas en sitios ceremoniales de época Inca comprendían sacrificios humanos (capacochas). Si bien los cronistas españoles escribieron sobre ellas, sus relatos estaban basados en fuentes ...