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elaborate church (complete with flashing lights around the altar) built to house the image of El Señor de Q'oyoriti
(The Christ of Q'oyoriti). The temporary toilets are a major ordeal. The blue plastic sea of restaurants, stalls and
tents is all carried in, on foot or donkey. The whole thing is monumentally striking: a temporary tent city at the
foot of a glacier, created and dismantled yearly to honor two mutually contradictory yet coexisting religions in a
festival with dance and costumes whose origins no one can remember.
