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Inti Raymi

The Andean festival of the sun, with maize beer offered to the sun and the earth before anyone drinks.

Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) at Sacsayhuaman,Cusco
Photo: Cyntia Motta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Inti Raymi

Inti Raymi is the Inca festival of the sun at the winter solstice. It is staged each 24 June in Cusco and kept by Quechua and Kichwa communities across the Andes as thanks for the harvest. Chicha de jora, beer brewed from sprouted maize, is raised to the sun and a little is poured on the ground for Pachamama before people drink. Communities share food laid out on cloths on the ground: boiled maize, potatoes, beans and roast meat. In Peru meat and tubers are also baked under hot stones as pachamanca.

The dishes

Chicha de joraMaize beer offered to the sun and the earth.PachamancaMeat and tubers baked in the earth under hot stones.

Also part of it, and being written: Mote (Boiled maize kernels at the shared meal.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Inti Raymi" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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