This festival in honour of the Inca sun god Inti happens every June to commemorate the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, meaning the return of the sun and the start of longer days. 🌄 #intiraymi #incaempire #pachamama #IntrepidDudettesOfTheIncaEmpire (3)

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Feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer Indígena. Happy International Day of Indigenous Women! #internationalday #indigenouswomen #5thSeptember was chosen because it is the day that Bartolina Sisa was killed for participating in the indigenous uprising against the Spanish in 1780.

Today in 1533, the Spanish killed the Inca emperor Atahualpa by garrotting him. This historical moment affected the lives of everyone throughout the Inca Empire. NB: Some historians state that the date was actually 28th August 1533. #inca #peru #incaempire #26july #cajamarca

Happy Pachamama Day! One #Pachamama ritual happened every August (late winter in the southern hemisphere) when the Inca Emperor would gather his best buddies together and go to a sacred field near #Cusco. The rituals were called #PacahamamaRaymi, the Festival of Mother Nature.

On 27th May, Peru celebrates Native Languages Day. 2 facts about #Quechua: Renata Flores Rivera blends pop & traditional in her Quechua language songs to help keep the language alive. Roxana Quispe Collantes became the first person to ever defend a thesis in Quechua in 2019.

Fiesta de La Tirana is celebrated in northern Chile on 16th July every year. It’s the biggest religious festival in Chile! And whilst it doesn’t focus much on Ňusta Willac, it all began with her story. For more, head to books2read.com/idie ;) On This Day She #fiesta #chile

Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales is now available as a paperback! Head to books2read.com/jungle-inca-ta… Just £12 (or equivalent) for 2 books in one! #AmazonJungle #booksoftwitter #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #readingwithkids #writersoftwitter

I highly recommend the song Inti Raymi by Lenin Tamayo (leninqpop on Instagram). #intiraymi #qpop

Did you know? The Inca Empire, spanning over 2,500 miles, had a remarkable logistics system known as the Royal Road. #IncaEmpire #LogisticsLegacy #Ridelink #throwback

We’re doing a full day tour of the #SacredValley of the #Inca Here we’re visiting the circular agricultural terraces of Moray or Muyu Uray (Inca name) This is #Peru 🇵🇪

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Today is National Potato Day in Peru (#dianacionaldelapapa). 🥔🥔 The Incas had a goddess of the potato called Acsumama or Axomama. Potatoes come from South America originally- they were first domesticated near Lake Titicaca more than 2000 years BC! 🔵 👍 #incaempire #potato

Happy #worldenvironmentday! A bit about #Pachamama… The “pacha” of Pachamama means earth or time and “mama” is mother. She was like the Earth itself personified, like a living and breathing landscape that people worshipped, revered and spoke to. For more, see Inca-tastic Tales

Yesterday was the birth anniversary of Ellen Impey (7th June 1844), sister of Catherine Impey. Ellen supported Catherine in her anti-racism work. They lived together in Street. There's a chapter about Catherine in Unsung Women in Somerset. #womeninhistory #somerset #history

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Women who went unrecognised, uncelebrated and unrewarded in Somerset. Preorder from books2read dot com/unsung-junior #Somerset #booksoftwitter #kidsbook #kidslit

International Day of Indigenous Women honours Bartolina Sisa who led the Aymara-Quechua rebellion against the exploitation and abuse of Spanish colonizers. Today we honour and uplift our Indigenous Women, those in the spectrum of Womanhood, Intersex, and Gender Diversity!