{"id":75201,"date":"2019-06-20T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=75201"},"modified":"2019-06-20T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:08:59","slug":"corpus-christi-in-cusco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/corpus-christi-in-cusco.html","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi in Cusco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A float at today\u2019s parade here in Cusco. \u00a0(All photographs by my wife.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today \u2014 20 June 2019 \u2014 is the Catholic feast day of Corpus Christi, set sixty days after Easter and celebrating the supposed continuing post-resurrection physical presence of Christ in the wafer and wine of the Mass. \u00a0(Catholics believe that presence to be literal, and not merely symbolic or metaphorical even if not detectible via chemical analysis of wine and wafer). \u00a0In other words, the feast is very specifically and explicitly Catholic and isn\u2019t celebrated by Protestants (or Latter-day Saints), since they don\u2019t believe in Christ\u2019s \u201creal presence\u201d in the Eucharist. \u00a0Observance of the feast of Corpus Christi dates back, so far as I\u2019m aware, to thirteenth-century Belgium (using today\u2019s geographical terminology).<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a very big deal here in Cusco.<\/p>\n

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One of the statues being carried through the streets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Many of the streets in the central city (including the street on which our hotel sits) were blocked off and shut down today for a parade. \u00a0People were out in their finery, with their children and grandchildren. \u00a0The music of marching bands reverberated through the old colonial streets.<\/p>\n

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All dressed up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As a matter of religious history, Cusco\u2019s celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi is extraordinarily interesting. \u00a0At least, according to the description given by our Catholic local guide.<\/p>\n

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In the background, Cusco\u2019s Catholic cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tomorrow \u2014 21 June 2019 \u2014 will be the solstice. \u00a0It will be the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere while, of course, it will be the winter solstice here in the southern hemisphere. \u00a0That is, here in the south, it will be the day on which the sun is furthest from the solar equator and the day on which it begins to move back toward the (here, spring or vernal) equinox, when night and day are of equal length. \u00a0To put it yet another way, it will represent the beginning of the triumph of the sun and its light over the darkness of winter. \u00a0For the Incas, the winter solstice was New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

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Statues being carried in Cusco\u2019s 2019 Corpus Christi procession<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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To celebrate, they played music and had a parade. \u00a0In the parade, they carried the mummified remains of the previous Inca rulers and other dignitaries around. \u00a0Being dead, these rulers, who had been regarded as gods (the sons of the sun), were now mediators for the people in heaven. \u00a0Traditionally, fifteen of these mummies were carried about, splendidly dressed, with gold for their eyes.<\/p>\n

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Another Corpus Christi statue, with police in green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In today\u2019s Corpus Christi parade, fifteen statues of mediating Catholic saints were carried about, accompanied by music.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Cusco, Peru<\/p>\n

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