Mysterious appearance of stone towers on the beaches of Uruguay

May 2, 2019

The beaches of Punta del Este have appeared with stones piled in the sand that belong to a very ancient custom that we see more frequently in other parts of the world.

This Thursday, the beach of Punta Salina, in Punta del Este, rose differently. In the rock section, he does not know who or when, Someone armed with stones from the square several towers. They are photographed and watched with curiosity by those who pbad near the place.

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In Uruguay, it is not common, but in other parts of the world, the manufacture of stone towers is a very old practice that finds its roots in different cultures.

Where tradition began

In recent years, he has started to be fashionable in different places. The newspaper El País of Spain He explained that in South America, the indigenous peoples who lived in the Andes did so before and that it was a kind of offering to the Pachamama, Mother Earth.. They called it apacheta.

As well it's a custom that has roots in certain areas of the Arctic Circle of the North American Zone. There, they called it Inukshuk and served as landmarks in the mountains to guide travelers. Meanwhile, in other areas such as Ireland, these cairns were used to mark the burial sites.

In addition Zen philosophy also stacks the stones and connects them to the inner balance.

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The stone towers appear in the Disney Moana movie, in which they show how each tribal head of each generation offers the protagonist a stone to form it. The idea was that the tribe represented in the tower the way of life of all ancestors. Moana's mission is to try to end the isolation in which they live and thus complete the construction of the tower.