Saturday, May 30, 2009

5/22 Quenko ruins




Then we rode the horses for 20 more minutes, until we arrived at Quenko, coming from the word quenqo, meaning “labyrinth” or “zigzag”, which refers to the patterns carved into the rocks. One of the main things to see there is the rock with a bowl carved into it and two zigzag channels coming off to the sides. At special ceremonies, the priest would our llama blood into the bowl; if the blood flowed to the left and didn’t make it to the end of the channel it signified bad fertility in the upcoming year.

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