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Bolivian Skull Ceremony Blends Ancient Rite With Catholicism
Hundreds of Bolivians had human skulls blessed at a chapel in La Paz in an annual ceremony on Friday that mixes traditional Andean ancestor worship with Roman Catholic customs.
The skulls, called "natitas" – "flat noses" in the local Aymara indigenous language — are ideally from unknown people and are collected from abandoned cemeteries, but some are of long dead relatives, according to
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/08/244016012/bolivian-skull-ceremony-blends-ancient-rite-with-catholicism