In Kantu Peru Tours we are sure that if you know them, you have seen them on or inside a house or decorating a store, suddenly you already knew their name, but you probably do not know their history, Protection, Happiness and Fertility around a bull … Pucara bulls are well known in many parts of the world for its curious appearance, it is difficult to see in ceramic a strong bull, well planted on the ground but with bulging and exorbitant eyes, a tongue trying to lick his nose and many ornaments as if someone they were going to ride, it’s really weird, if we add to this a rare habit of placing the bulls on top of the houses … but … you have not asked yourself why? Placing 2 Pucara bulls and a cross in between on the houses is a very common custom in the Andean towns of Peru, in fact, I have seen them in almost all the country including the capital Lima, but it is much more frequent in Cusco, Puno , Ayacucho and Apurimac, because this tradition comes from a town called Pucar\u00e1 at 101 km north of Puno (about 2 hours by car).<\/p>\n
How did the tradition begin? <\/strong><\/p>\n Everything begins when the Spaniards arrived at the town of Pucar\u00e1 with their new animals, especially \u00abEl Toro\u00bb and included it in a party (which already existed) celebrating the payment to the land, where the bull was painted, adorned and saddled, then put spicy on his nose, imagine the irritation and madness of the bull!, Because this image was captured in many people, see a powerful bull with eyes wide open by the irritation of the spicy, trying to lick his nose and with his curly tail very characteristic of the brave bulls.<\/p>\n In those times, there were several communities responsible for making pottery for the conquistadors, for their special care in their work, one of these communities were the Chepa Pupuja, who until now are still making pottery for many peoples, they in the colonial era, began to make the image of these toritos in ceramics to maintain a magic-religious culture among the peasants, who automatically adopted this symbol as Protection, Happiness and Fertility in the homes.\u00a0The Chepa Pupuja live in the community of Checa, they are not in Pucar\u00e1 … however, they had to take their jobs where there were a lot of people, and sell their products, especially these bulls, in this way they came to establish their sale in the nearest railway station, this station was inPucar\u00e1 and that is why its work was known as \u00abToritos de Pucar\u00e1\u00bb\u00a0The bulls bring happiness, protection and fertility to all those who inhabit their homes, also considered a symbol of Andean identity, which is why many families have them at the top of their homes, either on their roofs or as ornaments in homes, to monitor homes, bless marriages and protect the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Kantu Peru Tours we are sure that if you know them, you have seen them on or inside a house or decorating a store, suddenly you already knew their name, but you probably do not know their history, Protection, Happiness and Fertility around a bull … Pucara bulls are well known in many parts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4932],"tags":[],"post-faq":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations-peru"],"acf":[],"views":1258,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post-faq","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kantuperutours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-faq?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}