Learning activity 1

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Select a celebration around the world and describe it according to the format.
Include images to illustrate your ideas. You can find and example in Introductory
material section 1. Describing celebrations and special occasions around the
world. You have to make your description in minimum 250 words.

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What it is More than six centuries ago, the Inca
celebrated. Pachacutec instituted the Feast of the
Sun God. Today, Cusco still
represents Inti Raymi with the same
fervor as his ancestors did. This
festival in its contemporary version
takes place on June 24th, 1994, when
the city celebrations were instituted in
memory of its millennial origin and
cradle of the great Inca civilization.

The Inti Raymi is the most important

festival of the Inca empire and it is
done in honor to its Sun god or called
Inti. It is an ancestral celebration of
the Andean peoples. The ritual begins
with the sunset of the longest night of
the year, the 23 and June, date
considered before the solstice. Its
meaning is to ask the sun to return to
approach the earth, beginning the
summer. This celebration also
coincides with the time of the harvest
and the end of an Andean agricultural
cycle.
When the sun appeared, they
expressed their recognition and
worshiped it as supreme, only and
universal god, who with his light and
his virtue created and sustained all
things of the earth. Likewise, they
 thanked him for the harvests received
during the year.

A few hours away from Inti Raymi or

Fiesta del Sol, miles of Peruvians and
tourists prepare to receive a new year
full of abundance and work, in Cusco.

The Inti Raymi was established in the

calendar of the festival of Cusco from
1944 thanks to the enthusiasm of Dr.
Cusqueo. Humberto Vidal Unda.

To date this representation or staging

has a documented script

Where and It was an Inca ceremony held

when it is annually in Cusco, capital
celebrated. Tawantinsuyo, between the final
period of harvest and the beginning of
the winter equinox of the Andes that is
to say in the second half of June. The
Inti Raymi is equivalent to what today
is celebrated the celebration of new
year.

Today, on June 24 of each year, the

solemn evocation of the splendid Inca
rite takes place in Sacsayhuaman,
with a script that has been renovated
and prepared by distinguished
specialists in the field.

On the night of the day the fires were

extinguished throughout the vast
empire, the Tahuantisuyo, and in
Cusco in the great square
Huacaypata were concentrated all the
most brilliant characters of the
empire.
 The Inti Raymi takes place in the city
of Cusco at the end of June, when the
winter solstice begins and the sun is
at a greater distance from the earth.

Scenarios
On June 24, the feast in honor of the
Sun God, takes place in the three
historical and natural scenarios that
are usually used for the staging:

1.-The Qorikancha (Golden Siege): In

the Inca era was the main temple
consecrated to the sun.

2.-The Plaza de Armas (the old

Auqaypata or Plaza del Guerrero):
During the Incanat, in this immense
square the ceremony was completely
developed in the middle of the great
ushnu or ceremonial platform.

3.-Saqsaywaman (voice deriving from

the Quechua words "saqsay" and
"waman" which translated into
Spanish means "satiate hawk"). This
impressive archaeological center is
located at 3,555 m.s.n.m., one
kilometer from the Inca district of
Qolqanpata.
What The main character is the Inca, who
people goes in a litter loaded by eight
wear. vassals, wearing a costume with the
colors of Tahuantinsuyo, gold
bracelets and a feather ornament on
the head.

During the celebration the sovereign

was sitting on his golden throne
carried by his porters. She wore a
kind of dress with a girdle on her
waist of various colors, also with a
great color stained with beautiful
embroidery and on the head in a gold
helmet. The sign of an important
official of the officials as the
indigenous women with the borders
and multicolored blouses, leading to
the branches of cedroncillo, with
which they drive away the evil spirits.
Other flowers, yellow, yellow, yellow,
yellow, yellow, yellow and other
flowers. It should be noted that in that
celebration all barefoot. The Inca
soldiers wore their shields in one
hand and in the other had a star
made of wood, and also wore a
helmet.

Names of the clothes and accessories

that the Incas used

1. Ccorekente bird feathers

2) tassel
3) hull
4) scepter
5) cord
6) tulumpi
7) rapacejo
8) capelin
9) small center
10) Shield with his banderin
11) bracelet
12) fringe
13) cup
14) bending
15) sandal
16) metal plate
17) tunic
THE COYA:
1) fastener
2) covers head
3) mantilla
4) pin
 5) fringe
6) flowers
7) bag
8) tunica
9) sandal

What The people of city of Cusco, is filled

people do. with fiesta, ponchos and typical hats
of the region.

The inhabitants of Cusco traditionally

involve all, including tourists, to enjoy
and to marvel at this more special
day. Countless additional events must
be before, during and after 24th.
These are exhibitions, street and
square activities in the day and
evening live concerts given by the
very best of the diverse musical
talents of Peru, performed in the
Plaza Armas. This is the second
largest festival in Latin America, after
the Rio Carnival.

Most of the concerts and exhibitions

are for free and are sponsored by the
city of Cusco and Peruvian
companies. For more than half of the
century the festival takes place in the
archaeological complex of
Sacsayhuaman, also called the
sacred house of the sun more than
200 thousand jungle people come in
the most beautiful spectacle of the
year in more than 500 agents proudly
bring the past alive. The highlight of
the Inti Raymi is the prayer given by
the Sapa Inca and the high priest in
the original language of the Incas,
 Quechua. This ancient language is
still spoken in wide areas and around
Cusco, mainly in the Peruvian
mountains.

To the beat of millennial musical airs,

delegates of the four of them parade
with their typical costumes, and also,
as coming from other times, ustas,
coyas and pallas, which advance in
undulating columns. Finally, suddenly,
the Inca reveals himself. The
sovereign is transported on a litter -
which in the legendary era was of
gold and silver - and accompanied by
a retinue of dried apricots and other
dignitaries who walk at a respectable
distance from him.

Why it is a The festival of the Sun was instituted

special in the government of the Inca
celebration. Pachacutec, this Inca was the one
who gave the greatest value to his
deity because in a decisive battle
between the Incas and Chancas He
appeared to the god ben vision to
Pachacuteq, and told him everything
that would happen, this was one of
the reasons that the Inca Pachacuteq
gave a greater value to his deity the
Sun.

In the days of the Incas, Inti Raymi

was the most important of the four
festivals celebrated in Cusco, it was
an old Andean religious ceremony in
honor of Tayta Inti (the sun father),
that was realized each winter solstice
in the navel From the world Qosqo.

The Incas, the Inti Raymi was the

most important of the four festivals
 celebrated in Cusco, according to
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Peruvian
writer and historian of Spanish and
Inca ancestry 539-1616), this
ceremony indicated half of the year as
well As the origin of the Inca, where
all the population of the city, the
nobles, Curacas of the Inca Empire
attended with their best galas, Plaza
Hucaypata (Plaza de Armas del
Cusco) and had a duration of 15 days

After the Spaniards conquered the

Inca Empire, in about 1572 the
viceroy Francisco lvarez de Toledo
(1515-1584) forbade it because it was
considered a pagan ceremony and
contrary to the faith that the Spanish
brought (catholic). It is said that after
this the Inti Raymi party continued to
be carried out clandestinely.

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