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