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Robert Randall, « Qoyllur Rit’i, an inca fiesta of the Pleiades: reflections on time & space in the Andean World », Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines, ID : 10.3406/bifea.1982.1552
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The fiesta of Qoyllur Rit’i, held every year at Corpus Christi in an isolated valley near Cusco, is still dominated by indigenous beliefs. In this paper it is suggested that the fiesta is actually pre-Columbian in origin and that it was originally intended as a celebration of the transition form one year to the next, from the past world to the present. This concept of transition is then placed within the context of both Inca and present-day Andean ideas of time and space.