Come and meet the mascot of the Pan American Games Lima 2019
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Three days ago the Lima 2019 Pan American Games began, where athletes from the 41 countries of the Americas are participating in 39 sports. In this post I want to detail it is about the official mascot about this game, since the pet is one of the most essential parts, she is one of the ones that centers and fills millions of people with expectation as it will be?
The official mascot of the Pan American Games of Lima 2019, has the name Milco that comes from an inspiration of a region sculpture called Cuchimilco that comes from the eighteenth century, are listed were made with clay in the civilizations of Ancient Peru. Its name according to historians comes from a word composed of the Nahuatl language (similar to xochi-milco), its name comes from the prefix "cuchi" which means Pig and "Milco" means place of, place of pig.
How was this pet created?
The organization of the Pan American Games of Lima 2019, I create a contest where they should present the pet that would identify these games, on Monday June 19 they announced the three finalist where the pet would be chosen through the page www.lima2019 .pe, where people should support their favorite pet and the winner of the popular vote will be announced on July 26, 2017.
The three finalist were
1.- Andrea Norka Medrano Moy, her pet is Milco, represents the culchimic sculpture, represented by the Chancay culture and even a historical past that takes pride.
2.- Andy Maverick Alegre Campos, his pet Amantis, who represented the Amancaes flower that grows on the hills of Lima and blooms once a year in the winter season.
3.- Alfredo Vitor Ayala designer of Wayqi, this represents a tender lizard that lives in the archaeological sites of the capital, representing the fauna of Lima.
The prize was 15 thousand soles for the first place, apart from having the satisfaction of seeing his work around the world, this pet would accompany every activity that takes place before, during and after the Pan American Games. Second place would win a prize of 10,000 soles and third place, he will get 5,000 soles.
Where the first place went to Andrea Norka Medrano Moy with her pet Milco.
How was Andrea inspired?
Andrea knew about the two-day contest that will end through Facebook of the Lima 2019 contest, she says that moment she remembered about six years ago, when she was a student in the Graphic Design area, she participated in an iconography course, in where she conducted a study of the Chancay culture, the Lima culture. His teacher asked him to make a design and told him in the form of a game "imagine there is a world sporting event and I want them to make a pet". She made a sketch of a knife, now she could do it after 6 years.
In the part of the name he says that it gave him a bit of difficulty because his design was a humanoid figurine that has the plus of teaching you a bit of culture. Andrea the first name he chose was Quechua, but his family gave him what it meant, so he decided to make an easy name to remember: Milco, the little knife. It means place and we are the headquarters.
Andrea says: "The head of three peaks is represented for the male knives, represents the gods in this case the Inti. He has tattoos at home and arms representing the waves of the sea. Their colors simulate the ceramics of these cultures. His headband it's attached to the nose. Something interesting is that some see Milco somewhat pulled up. The knives are known as "Chinese" and their eyes are up in representation of the deities. "
