Andean New Year (Willkakuti) (安第斯新年)

THE ANDEAN-AMAZONIC NEW YEAR (Willkakuti — 'the return of the sun'): every 21 June, at the southern winter solstice, tens of thousands gather before dawn at TIWANAKU and two hundred sacred sites to receive the first rays through the Gate of the Sun with open palms. Bolivia made it a plurinational public holiday (Supreme Decree 0173, 2009 — the Año Nuevo Andino Amazónico y del Chaco), and the press announces the year each June — 5530 in 2022 through 5533 in 2025, ALL FOUR ASSERTED. THE ERA'S FORMULA IS THE JEWEL, and it says everything: year = 5,000 + (CE − 1492) — five PACHAKUTIS of a thousand years for the deep Andean past, and then the years SINCE THE CONQUEST counted on top, the era keeping the wound in its own arithmetic (proven against every witnessed year). THE ERA IS MODERN AND SAYS SO (the amazigh/kurdish/assyrian lineage): constructed by Aymara intellectuals of the katarista movement on the genuinely ancient Tiwanaku solstice rite — identity built on astronomy, labeled exactly that; the decreed 21 June served as the state keeps it, the 20th-vs-21st astronomical variance disclosed. OPENS THE CATALOGUE'S 41ST TRADITION. Pure compute, no LLM.

Cost: 1 TIAN Points per call. tRPC procedure andean.year.