Doing a little browsing related to the Andes' mountains, I happened to run across the photo on the left.
It was taken in a small town near Puno, Peru named Chucuita, and purports to be an ancient Inca "fertility garden." Supposedly, these fertility symbols point to the Inca sun god, Inti. Even today, local women are said to sneak into the garden to perform some sort of fertility ceremony to help them get pregnant.
As it happens, I've been there. In the course of walking around this "fertility garden," I happened to run into a man, originally from Scotland, who then taught at the Universitad Nacional del Altiplano in Puno. He said the "fertility garden" was something of a local Chamber-of-Commerce project to generate some tourist traffic. Who wouldn't want to see an ancient Incan "fertility garden"?
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