Bolivian Indigenous Aymara celebrate New Year

(21 Jun 2023)
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La Paz - 21 June 2023
1. People preparing ceremony to welcome the year 5531
HEADLINE: Indigenous Aymara celebrate New Year
2. Woman preparing ceremony
3. Sunrise seen behind mountains
ANNOTATION: Aymara Indigenous people received the first rays of sunlight in a New Year's ritual in La Paz.
4. Zoom in of sunrise
ANNOTATION: At the ceremony marking the year 5,531, participants made offerings to Mother Earth, or Pachamama, in hopes of good fortune.
5. Mayor La Paz Ivan Arias starts ceremony for the Andean New Year
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Arias, Mayor of the city of La Paz:
“That it (the New Year) may be full of great achievements. May we not give up, may we not hate each other, may harmony, peace and reconciliation always prevail among us. The sun shine for all of us and may it give us its energy."
7. Wide shot of people receiving the rays of the sun
ANNOTATION: The celebration of pre-Hispanic peoples also coincides with the Southern Hemisphere's winter solstice.
8. Mayor Arias and authorities in ceremony
9. Wide shot of people lifting their hands to the sky to absorb rays of the sun
10. Sun rising over the mountains
ANNOTATION: The ritual celebrates the ancestral belief that the sun's arrival on the solstice infuses participants with energy.
11. Wide shot of people lifting their hands to absorb the sun's rays
STORYLINE:
With bonfires, rituals and offerings to the Pachamama, Indigenous communities of the Bolivian Andes welcomed on Wednesday the Andean New Year.
People gathered early in the morning to receive the first rays of sunlight as Aymara Indigenous communities are celebrating the Andean new year 5,531 or "Willka Kuti" that translates to, return of the sun, in Aymara.
The celebration of pre-Hispanic peoples coincides with the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
Antonio Mamani, Andean religious leader, it's an important celebration as it allows them "to receive new energies (so) that we have much more of that thinking, wisdom."
Ivan Arias, Mayor of the city of La Paz, shared his good wishes for the new year.
“May we not give up, may we not hate each other, may harmony, peace and reconciliation always prevail among us, he said.
AP Video by Carlos Guerrero.
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