Celebration of Aymara new year

Описание: (21 Jun 2011)
1. Wide of Tiwanau at dawn
2. Pull out from President Evo Morales, surrounded by press and Aymara shamans, as he arrives
3. Mid of Aymara shamans
4. Mid of President Morales with shamans, known as 'yataris'
5. Wide of opening ceremony
6. Various of President Morales, surrounded by people, during the ceremony
7. Mid of shamans blowing horns
8. Various of the sunrise
9. Wide of Morales, surrounded by a crowd
10. Mid of crowd
11. Close of fire, behind which is a crowd of people
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Lucas Choque Apasa, Aymara shaman officiating at new year ceremony:
"We have this ritual ceremony for the Aymara new year where we thank Mother Earth and the cosmos for all that we have received, to have balance and welfare for all our brothers and sisters on planet Earth."
13. Various of crowds of people at the ceremony
14. Wide of horizon, with the 'Wiphala' (Aymara flag) in the foreground
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Javier Quiroga, Aymara participant in new year ceremony:
"For us this is about receiving positive energy, and asking for it from Tata Inti (the Sun God). We ask that it gives us positive energy and prosperity to families, in our country and the whole world."
16. Wide of a crowd of people on a distant hill
17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ingrid Mamani, Aymara participant in new year ceremony:
"For me it symbolised a new year full of hope and prosperity, where everything is better."
18. Various of ceremony
STORYLINE:
Bolivian President Evo Morales attended new year celebrations with the indigenous Aymara people on Tuesday, taking part in a ceremony of ancient rituals in Tiwanaku, 70 kilometres (43.4 miles) east of the capital La Paz.
He accompanied Aymara shamans and presented offerings to La Pachamama (Mother Earth) and Tata Inti (the Sun God).
Tuesday in the Aymara calender is considered the start of the 5,519th year.
That number is arrived at by adding the 519 years since Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, to what is said to be the 5,000-year existence of the Aymara people.
The Aymaras live in Bolivia, the south of Peru and the north of Chile.
For the Aymaras, the date also marks a new agricultural cycle in the Andean region.
President Evo Morales is the first Aymara to govern Bolivia, and has declared the Aymara new year a national holiday, in an attempt to boost native cultural traditions.
Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala, visiting Bolivia following his recent election victory, was also invited to the event but he instead met Morales in the presidential palace in Bolivia's capital La Paz.

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