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    Ekeko

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    God of wealth and abundance. a folk saint and spirit of wealth, health and success. Re-manifestation of an ancient´fertility deity.

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    God of wealth and abundance. a folk saint and spirit of wealth, health and success. Re-manifestation of an ancient´fertility deity.

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    Ekeko

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    Ekeko

    It is a god of abundance, fertility and joy of Aymara origin or colla, still receives some cult in the Andean highlands, especially in the summer solstice, when the fair celebrates the Alasita.He is an idol believed abundance provides home where he taxed offerings of alcohol and cigarettes.It takes the form of a person smiling, slightly overweight, dressed in clothes typical of the highlands and loading large amount of packages of food and other basic necessities objects hanging from his clothes.Currently the figurine that represents it has a

    suitable hole in his mouth to introduce cigarettes, the statue "would smoke."Originally the name come from the Quechua iqaqu.The ekeko is a deity worshiped for centuries before the conquest of the territory by the Spanish. His followers believed that chased away the disgrace of households and attracted fortune.It is thought to have originated among the inhabitants of Tiwanaku culture. After the conquest of the Aymara and then by the Incas, adopted the deity, and became a symbol of fertility and good luck.In 1612, the Jesuit Ludovico Bertonio, published "Aymara language vocabulary" which mentions this Andean deity.Archaeologist Carlos Ponce Sangins paceo believed that the ancient anthropomorphic figures (with phallic appendage prominent hump) would be of the Inca Empire, and the predecessors of equeco colonia.Manuel era Rigoberto Paredes wrote that these tiny remnants would phallic statuettes remote sacred festivals of the summer solstice.At its inception, the stone was Ekeko, hunchback, had indigenous features and not wearing any clothes: her nakedness was the symbol of fertility.In the colony worship the deity took new force in La Paz (seat of government now Bolivia) during the siege that this city endured during the indigenous uprising of Tupac Katari against Spanish control.The Catholic Church tried to eradicate their religion in colonial times, without success, although the image came to suffer some changes: he was wearing and his features changed to a mestizo.Today, there is in the southern highlands of Peru and western Bolivia belief that ekeko is able to grant the wishes of his followers if they offer a miniature copy of them, and many have a picture at home to solve their problems, leaving money to his side and holding a lit cigar in his mouth, which if consumed half a sign of bad omen. The figures offered are ceramic, metal or stone object's exact reproductions of their requests: cars, appliances and food. When you want love, give you thumbnails of fowls. The deity is known in different parts of the world where colonies of Bolivian migrants expanded their cult.The figure of Ekeko took great popularity in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) during the hyperinflationary period of the eighties. There his followers take it as a sort of patron of fortune.

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