The show was broadcast live by the government and staged with the sort of pageantry usually reserved for openings of major sporting events.
Access to the event was limited amid tight security owing to the attendance of President Otto Perez, a restriction that infuriated members of indigenous rights groups who came to the site to make offerings but were not allowed to enter.
A group of several dozen protesters gathered outside the entrance to protest their exclusion on the sacred day.
"We should all have access here," protester Jose Kak said. "We are the owners, the inheritors of these sacred temples."
