<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pukllay Harmony Restoration Blood Battles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">sport many sports <br>embody a ritual of combat<br>trial by body muscles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">instead of blood <br>letting battles in times<br>of repetitive wars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Andean festival of Pukllay<br>incorporated a time of ritual battles<br>between neighboring communities </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Yawar Mayu' offering river of blood<br>in restored harmony cleansed a years<br>ill will between neighboring communities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">conquering Spanish outlawed<br>community ritual battles of Pukllay<br>continued in remote Andean regions </div><div style="margin:10px 0">battles were held at boundaries <br>between neighboring communities <br>men from the two communities </div><div style="margin:10px 0">gathered to ritual battles fight <br>while women would sing songs <br>encouraging their local men </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to stand to be brave to not <br>fear the river of blood<br>as battle took various forms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">two opposing neighboring sides <br>might throw hard unripe fruit<br>or men might form opposing lines </div><div style="margin:10px 0">strike neighboring men<br>with their warak'a slings <br>or fight close with staffs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what was aim important <br>some blood must be spilt<br>as an offering to Pachamama </div><div style="margin:10px 0">blood offerings<br>to the great Being <br>who is mother earth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">blood offerings<br>to the Apus <br>the Beings </div><div style="margin:10px 0">who are majestic <br>mountain peaks<br>to Sacred Sites</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what if a man died <br>during ‘Yawar Mayu' fight <br>a ritual rare event</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his body was buried <br>as further offering on site<br>to the sacred Beings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in many modern sports skill<br>courage endurance even blood<br>is offered up in necessary games</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is a human need to vent<br>frustrations disharmony ill will<br>community balance restored</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526429" data-title="Pukllay Harmony Restoration Blood Battles de Terence George Craddock" data-description="sport many sports embody a ritual of combat trial by body muscles instead of blood letting battles in times of repetitive wars Andean festival of Pukllay incorporated a time of ritual battles between neighboring communities ‘Yawar Mayu' of..."></div> </div> </div>

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