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In this Aug. 13, 2016 photo, Aymara priests chew coca leaves before the start of a ceremony in honor of Pachamama or Mother Earth, on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia. According to Andean mythology, Pachamama awakens every August hungry and thirsty after the Bolivian dry season. To satiate the goddess, believers hold syncretic rituals in which they toss offerings including fruit, coca, sweets and a dead llama fetus into a bonfire and they water the soil with the warm blood of a sacrificed llama. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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