Takanakuy is a Quechua word that means 'to fight' or 'to hit each other'. It is also the word that describes a violent christmas tradition where people could fight because of many different reasons; for example to solve any problems they had over the last year or just to reinforce their friendship. During the days of celebrations, they have different rituals. They wear death animals to inspire fear on their opponents. Furthermore, they dance to 'Huaylía' all over the cities and towns while wearing black masks to cover their faces until they fight in the arena. Some of them say that these fights origin from the times of African slavery, when the European landowners used to make their servants fight each other for entertainment instead of rooster's fights. However after the times of slavery, they used the Quechua natives called qorilazos (quechua word for 'golden lasso'), because they descent from a warrior society. Eventually they took over and adapted the traditions as part of their own culture until nowadays.
