Each one of us, took three coca leaves and slightly fanned them out to form a kintu for our ritual. The first leaf represents the underworld; the second, this world; and the third, the upperworld.

At the ceremony for Mother Earth, we held our kintus, made a wish, and blew gently our finest energy onto the leaves towards the sky, towards the universe. But before that, we expressed our gratitude for what Mother Earth gives us daily.

Kintu

Ferdousi Hussain-Reza

Chinchero, 2013