The god who left Lima

The Inti Raymi, an Inca festival in honor of the Sun and Mother Earth, and the most important in its time, coincided with the day of the winter solstice, when the Sun was far from the Earth. To this day, Inti Raymi is celebrated in the Cusco highlands by hundreds of indigenous Peruvians who hope that the sun will shine brightly as a good omen for the coming year. In 2017, a group of students, mostly descendants of Andean migrants, staged the Inti Raymi in the abandoned ruins of the Campoy fortress in Lima. Despite their efforts, the ever-cloudy skies of the Peruvian capital failed to see the sun that day, leaving some to wonder if their god had abandoned them.