>>3667Yeah, didn't want to write it down.
You can see why they bring young people, not to me8ntion the folktale that miners and/or shamans sometimes do human sacrifices to appease the mountain gods. Normally they do livestock sacrifice.
Anyway, I found this recolection by some usanian.
And made me remeber folktales about the prospector who gets his fat chance after wondering in this case into the desert mountains for gold.
That is what all is about, getting your spot of luck and go back and integrate yourself into the petty, or in the case of the late Percy Torres, into the bourgeoisie. One of the most notorious congressman of Puno, the late Fujmorist M. Mamani, was known for being a millionaire whom his main avenues of income (registrated) was doing private security to the mines.
https://www.appstate.edu/~perrylb/Courses/Peru/3140/Readings/Finnegan_2015.pdf