Andean Condor

The Andean Condor is flying bird in the world, majestic symbol of the Andes and considered the spirit, with its huge wings flies as a serene guardian in the sky above the high mountain peaks. Andean peoples did not hesitate assign religious significance, represent it in its ceramics or cave paintings and become expression and representation of the most important pre-Hispanic civilization of the continent: the Andean civilization.  It is credited with great longevity and, in some cases, there are those who come to hold that the Andean Condor never dies, because feeling old and sick would return to its nest reborn. The Andean Condor is an emblematic animal, a symbolic link with our cultural past.  Condor is an exclusively scavenging animal, this means not kill or hunt to eat, but eat animal corpses or carrion.

In the Inca Empire was considered a very special divinity linking with pacha kay pacha hanan. About condor there are many stories and legends; for example, a dead, Condor appeared as the announcement of the destruction of the Tawantinsuyo has tradition that fell into the courtyard of the Aqllawasi cusquenian or House of the Virgin of the Sun.

Today, the Condor is not most important God between the Andean but still retains some of its features above or divine, participating in some remote villages in festivals in his honor as the celebration of Yawar Fiesta meaning blood feast.

The Condor passes is a traditional song in his honor, a Peruvian zarzuela whose music was carried out by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomías Robles in 1913, legally registered in 1933 and lyrics building peace Julio. In the Peru was declared Cultural heritage of the nation in 2004.

At the end of his long life the Condor feels tired and somewhat weak forces, believes that his life no longer makes sense for what chooses the end preferred by race and practiced for millennia, decides his suicide which back flight and seeks to reach a height large enough to then descend dive at extraordinary speed and eventually crashing against the face Rocky Mountain, thus putting an end to a century of reign in Andean heaven.Don't forget that you can subscribe to receive the best content of this page directly in your email by clicking here (remember to activate your subscription from the confirmation email that you reach your mail).