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Peru filmmakers

Only they are allowed to climb to the high peaks to bring ice ... Because only they have the duty of finding ice, the duty of bringing ice so life will flourish, so life will be reborn each year ...
July 28, 2013

Peru’s mythical ice-seeking Ukuku and its sensitivity to global climate change

If there is one creature from Andean mythology most impacted by the accelerated melting of Peru’s glaciers due to global warming, it would probably be the Ukuku. This mythic creature from Peru’s Cusco region is half-man, half-beast — the offspring…

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