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The Pishtaco: the origins and relevance of the "white vampire" of the Andes

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From the Spanish conquest of Peru to today, the sinister figure of Pishtaco has haunted the psyche of the Andean Indians, to the point that the ethnographers who have studied the legends concerning him have linked them to a sort of "intergenerational trauma" which for centuries has allegedly fed itself, still terrorizing today the descendants of the Quetchua people.

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The Hypogeum God and the visionary rites of Chavรญn de Huantar

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In 2016 we went to visit the sacred site of Chavรญn de Huantar in Peru, the most important temple of the pre-Inca civilization of the Chavรญn. In this report we analyze the archaeological remains that have come down to us - starting from the Lanzรณn, the Stele Raimondi and the characteristic "nail-heads" - and the visionary cult that took place in the underground meanders of the temple.

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Thor Heyerdahl, theory and practice

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On 6 October 1914, exactly 107 years ago, Thor Heyerdahl - anthropologist, explorer, writer and director - was born in Norway. Let's retrace the main stages of his life, starting with the Kon-Tiki expedition with which he crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft built in the manner of the ancients, in order to demonstrate to academics the possibility of transoceanic travel in antiquity.

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