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Rodriguez market area where you can find anything including the dried animal parts required for the sorcery rituals that are still practiced in spite of the Catholic religion's overwhelming authority. About 95% of the population are nominally Roman Catholic but the ancient pre-Inca gods are still worshiped in the guise of their substituted Christian saints.
Laja
This church was Bolivia's first Cathedral before the capital was moved from Laja to the better site of La Paz in the Choquepayu canyon. Now, Laja is only a small village on the wind swept plateau half way between La Paz and the historically very important archaeological site of Tiahuaneco.
Tiahuanaco
The great mound behind these few ruins is not a hill but a stepped pyramid called Aquaplane built sometime between 200 and 600 AD by a theocratic Tiahuanaco civilisation whose religion and culture were adopted by the Huari people (from Ayacucho 700 km north of here), and imposed by them in the great Huari Empire that ruled over most of Peru and Bolivia around 800 AD.
There is an unmistakable similarity between these faces on the inner walls of the sunken court and the tenoned faces adorning the outside walls of the "Smiling God's" temple at Chavin de Huántar.
The figure with a feline face holding two staffs on the lintel of this massive arch represents the ruling god of the Tiahuanaco pantheon (the staff has been a symbol of authority from time immemorial in the Andes). The arch is called the Gateway of the Sun, the central figure represents the "Gateway God" and the others on both sides represent his numerous attendants.
There is a conceptual similarity between the Chavin "Smiling" and "Staff" gods and the Tiahuanaco "Gateway God" but a huge difference between the two civilisations for the Chavin cultural hegemony spread by peaceful means while the Tiahuanaco culture was forcibly imposed on the Andean peoples much like the Inca culture would be a few centuries later.
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