Feast of Our Lady of Carmen in Cusco

Feast of Our Lady of the Carmen in Cusco. The Feast of the Virgin of the Carmen also called Mamacha Carmen de Paucartambo is a religious festival held in Cusco and posing as a central date on 16 July.

This is a party full of color and music where hundreds of parishioners, the people and twelve groups of dancers go out to accompany the image of the Virgin. In the dances of these men and women you can feel not only the religious fervor that demonstrate the Mamacha, but also thanks to profess and which the application for amparo is mixed to it.

The cult of the Virgin of the Carmen also has a myth as the source, this is said that this appeared in the seventeenth century, on a day when the settlers arrived Qollas herding cattle. The story goes that once these men found to their astonishment the face of the Virgin in the relief of a crock. The finding was considered miraculous and was carried out by residents of Paucartambo, an image of the Virgin in her honor, and a temple in which to venerate it.

The myth of the Virgin of the Carmen de Paucartambo is closely related to the cult of the earth as it has, according to oral histories and beliefs of the people, that if the image of the Virgin presents pink coloration in the cheeks will a good crop year between augur well for the people, otherwise occur if your face looks paled ..

Feast of Our Lady of the Carmen in Cusco. You can also see the day of the Santurantikuy in Cusco.