Thursday, July 26, 2007

BOLIVIA - POTOSI





Although the wqorkers are mainly catholic, they worship the deveil underground (Teto or something in their language) you can see the statue made of clay which has impressive glass eyes a prominent member and spaces in his outh to smoke their special cigarettes! They make offerings to him to help with no accidents and good production underground since he is the owner of underground and god onlycontrols up top!It looks like something that could be discovered by explorers and they have to then work out what these crazy characters were doing in mines and what it had to do with the culture but realy it is wtill something that is ctually relevant to their ideas and practises today! Loco! means crazy! still hasnt stopped millions of deaths in there and the workers are still given ten yeasr life expectancy from the day start working in them!



1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

you gotta be mad to go thru that little whole. wouldnt catch me in there - mummy pleased you came out the other end!!!!!

5:12 PM  

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