Word: pachakuti
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Cycles of destruction and rebirth are hardly unknown to the Americas' native peoples. The Aymara people of Bolivia have a word for times of war, enslavement and privation: pachakuti, or the disruption of the universe. But pachakuti also contains the assumption that the cosmic order will be restored, ushering in a period of peace and harmony, or nayrapacha. Though their struggle has a far way to go, the native peoples of the two continents are hoping that nayrapacha is within their reach...
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