stackyFACTSBecause the high Andes mountains are painfully landlocked, seashells were considered impossibly rare, magical artifacts. When the rains failed, Inca priests would crush Spondylus shells into a fine dust and blow it into the harsh mountain winds, desperately hoping the ocean particles would successfully bait the storm clouds inward.
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