A statue with a phallus of more than one meter is the new tourist attraction of a Peruvian town, which has paid this particular tribute to its ancestors, the pre-Hispanic Moche civilization and its erotic ceramic vessels.
On the eve of the New Year, the municipality of Moche, located on the north coast of Peru, inaugurated a three-meter-high replica of a pre-Inca ceramic, which represents an indigenous man holding his erect virile member.
Immediately, tourists arriving in the countryside of this district, many of them on their way to the emblematic huaca (archaeological citadel) of the Sun and Moon of the Moche culture, stopped to take a picture and share it on their social networks.
“It represents the abundance, the fertility of our people, and above all because at this time we need abundance in every sense, in health, economics, peace and love”explained to the agency Efe the Mayor of the town, Arturo Fernández Bazán.
“That is why we have been inspired so that this replica is as is,” added Fernández, a gynecologist by profession.
The authority indicated that the statue has already become a tourist spot “that has exceeded our expectations” because these days they have seen that “Families come, they laugh, and you get a smile from the family group, the individual, the girl in love, in the face of this crisis that has brought us so much sadness “, alluding to the Covid pandemic.
Fernández stressed that “the Moche were able to dominate the waters of the Moche River, channel everything and turn this into a land from arid to fertile.”
“That is why our Moche have two types of representations: the huaco (ceramic) portrait and the huaco of fertility, which we call erotic,” he remarked.
Precisely, the museums of the north coast have countless pieces or erotic huacos where the ancient Peruvians of the Moche or Mochica culture, developed between the 2nd and 7th centuries, represented the sexual act, in various poses and couples.
The statue that welcomes Moche, on the Pan-American Highway, It is an initiative of its mayor, who claims to be the one who generates ideas in his district, to reactivate tourism and the economy, also anticipating the next election campaign in October in which he will run for the provincial mayor of Trujillo, the regional capital.
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