Bolivia
They worship two gods. The Catholic one imposed by the Spaniards and the Sun^God; the
Inca god of their ancestors. They pray for both, their own god in Quetzal language and the
Catholic one in Castilian, each one in the language they understand.
la Paz, most of them belong to
the Aymara, a town dominated
first by the Incas and later by the
conquerors.
Some people say that the Incas
annexed peacefully and
respectfully to Aymara, then
they assimilated their culture, a
similar analogy like the Greeks
did to the Romans. However,
others argue that there were
bloody wars for the conquest of
the Aymara territory, and that
during the Inca domain were
enough rebellions.
Whatever the truth is, the
Incas were unable to impose
their language, Quechua, to the
Aymara culture, especially on the
plateau of Titicaca.
The conquistadors and the
Incas
One of the keys of the
conquerors to dominate the
Aymara people was the
territorial division in places
where they had been dominated
by the Incas and no longer had
such a definite identity.