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Sepia-toned landscape illustration on aged rice parchment depicting a Bolivian folktale. A towering mountain with carved ridges and flowing streams dominates the scene, rising from the high plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano. Four Andean men in traditional attire stand at its base, gazing upward in awe beneath a swirling, cloud-filled sky. The image evokes reverence and mythic grandeur. “OldFolktales.com” is inscribed at the bottom right corner.

The Bride Who Became a Peak: An Aymara Tale of a Woman Who Refused Marriage

In a village nestled among the high peaks of the Bolivian Altiplano, where the wind cuts sharp and cold across the terraced fields and the mountains stand like ancient guardians, there lived a young woman named Qhana. Her name meant “brightness” or “clarity,” and she lived up to it intelligent, strong-willed, and possessed of a spirit that refused to be

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