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Inti Raymi
The Inca festival of the sun, held at the winter solstice in the south, now re-enacted each 24 June at Cusco and Sacsayhuaman.
About Inti Raymi
Inti Raymi, the festival of the sun, was the greatest ceremony of the Inca Empire, held at the June solstice, when the sun is at its farthest. It was suppressed by the Spanish in 1572. It was revived in 1944 as a pageant in Cusco, Peru, with actors in Inca costume, who in a ceremony climb from the Qorikancha to the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, where the sapa Inca speaks. The staging is based on chroniclers' accounts and is partly imagined. In Ecuador, Indigenous communities keep a related Inti Raymi in June with dancing. In the Andes more generally, offerings to the sun and to Pachamama are still made at this season.
Also part of it, and being written: Inti Raymi (The festival and its revival.), Inca religion (The religion of the original ceremony.), Sacsayhuamán (The site of the pageant.).
Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Inti Raymi" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.