Celebration Of Aymara New Year

TIWANAKU, BOLIVIA- JUNE 21: Aymara priests hold offerings to Pachamama (Mother Earth) in celebration of their Year 5.518 in the in archaeological and pre-Inca ruins on June 21, 2010 in Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Tiwanaku is the capital of the oldest living native culture of South America (born about 1500 BC and collapsed between 1100 and 1200 AD) and is about 71 miles west of La Paz, near Lake Titicaca, is the epicenter of the celebrations, which also marks the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. The Bolivian government declared a national holiday in the New Year Andean Amazon. (Photo by Jose Luis Quintana/LatinContent via Getty Images)