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Spiritualism, religion, history & architecture
Spanish colonial attempts to extirpate Inca religious beliefs transformed into an intricate blending of Catholic religion and indigenous customs. Ancient agricultural deities persisted in the embodiment of Catholic saints. The Spanish destroyed the royal Inca mummies and tried to smash any vestige of their cult, but the underlying tradition of ancestor worship continued and thrived — a tradition that lives on in Andean festivals throughout the Peruvian countryside, and in the architecture and magnificent artwork found in colonial churches, convents and cathedrals.
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