Three people sit before a burning mesa, offering to the pachamama or mother earth goddess, in an apacheta outside La Paz, Bolivia in August

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Three people sitting in front of a burning mesa, the offering to la pachamama, mother earth goddess, in la apacheta outside of La Paz, Bolivia, with mountains in the background and a brick house behind them.

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Location: la paz, bolivia
Photo credit: © davidxgreen / Alamy / Afripics
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