page_title: Peruvian retablo
section_title: Adam and Eve
hierarchical_section_title: Peruvian retablo / Adam and Eve
context_page_description: Retablos are a sophisticated Peruvian folk art in the form of portable boxes which depict religious, historical, or everyday events that are important to the Indigenous people of the highlands. It is a tradition originated in Ayacucho.
  The Spanish word retablo comes from the Latin retro-tabulum, which was later shortened to retabulum. This is a reference to the fact that the first retablos were placed on or behind the altars of Catholic churches in Spain and Latin America. They were three-dimensional statues or images inside a decorated frame.
context_section_description: There is a story of how a Catholic priest effectively used a retablo to hold the attention of his Indigenous audience. He began with a closed retablo, and told a long story about what was in the box, which he kept closed:
  a naked man
  ...a naked woman
  ...a snake
  ...temptation...
  sin...and punishment.
  He eventually opened the box and revealed that he was talking about...the creation of Adam and Eve.
caption: 3. Adam and Eve
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