Chavin de Huantar

The Chavin culture was a civilization that developed in the Andes of northern Peru. The discoverer of the Chavin culture is Julio Tello

~ Temple of Chavin ~

Chavin people always pray in this place precisely in the Circular Plaza. This plaza was found decorated with a group of anthraopomorphic personages arranged in a procession towards the staircase that leads to the Lanzon Gallery. in the lower part, a line of felines also directed toward the staircase. The Circular Plaza served as a private and selected ritual space, where the ceremonies of the priests include the consumption of hallucinogenic substances and the sound of shell trumpets.