THIS IS TINKU
We as humans, we have got so many religions just only if we even go to count all in one country, and as obviously we will come across a lots of festivals and holiday days. So, today i bring you one of the craziest festival , which is TINKU FESTIVAL.
WELCOME TO TINKU FESTIVAL
Now, let me take you the tour of this festival.
Each year, the Bolivia hills and towns becomes a fighting ring,people use fists and stones
for fighting.This is a Bolivian festival holiday day. Thousands of people gather araound
small city of Macha, and people in town gather for fighting their neighbours. Even after
few days everything goes back to normal.although there is no tourist attraction to this
place.there are some communities in the Bolivian Andes who perform these ritual battles
in remote mountain villages.It is celebrated every year in the first few weeks of May high
up in the Bolivian Andes Mountains.
Visitors who reports brutual warfare and chaos always gets fulfilled by the homemade booze,
sweats,etc. Tinku, which means something like “violent encounter” in Aymara,there are two
native groups in Andes (Quechua and Aymara)which means (encounter and meeting) who
celebrate these certain notorious festivals. Not only this include the celebration of dance
and huge ,choreographed musical events. This festival is At least 600 years old.
They celebrate only one or two of these festival per group each year.Some people who has
lived with the society and studied the festivals,they literally said there is no violent at
all in the people.
The heavily ritualized battle form of tinku,As it is a traditional fighting honor who
they give it to PACHAMAMA a goddess of Bolivians. Pachamama is a fertility goddess
revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is the earth and time mother who
presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes.
Gods and deities demanding blood or sacrifice as tribute are common throughout history.
That is why this tradition is seen as a way of sacrificing a little pain as an offering
in order to ensure a good harvest for the next year. Centuries later, people took it
literally to the extent that it became a yearly tradition to punch each other on this
Bolivian Holiday.
It's more like sport than any thing else these days ,where village against village,
villager against villagers and suddenly it ends with peace .their methods of fighting
attire are formalized as well. Many wear colourfull costumes, and sometimes a traditional
sort of helmet. They always first start fights with fists and later they supplement
it with weapons like rocks, stones. In this tradition, the men and women of different
communities will meet and begin the warlike festivities by dancing together.
Then the women will back-away and form circles around the men while chanting.
The men will later proceed to fight each other and, on some occasions, the women will
join in as well.
But there are even rules for people from getting too badly injured. there is always police
and communities who always stop fighting if one person falls down to ground.people do bets
on it. when the stone throwing fight starts all bets are off.sometimes older conflicts
between two groups also gets to much worse even after one goes down to ground.
usual drunkenness and poverty themes are wrapped up in depictions of tinku. There are
beverages like chicha,its a cousin of beer,is a major part of festivals. Although people
don't believe in drinking in normal days but kn only in some festivals ,they celebrate it
with chicha and homemade breezes, which is very fascinating about Bolivian people.This
Bolivian holiday is an old religious festival that gives hope to the people to improve
the crop harvest for the next year. This festival also shows the bravery of the
indigenous people of Aymara and Quechua during the time of the Spanish conquest.
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