Oleshti. The largest oleshti fish is 27 centimeters long. Its scales are yellow and green and sparkle like jewels. The front of its head is flat and elongated, its chin is round and thick, its lips are arched, and its gills are curved and rimmed with gold like the rays of the sun. Arguably, the oleshti is the most beautiful freshwater fish in the world.

As far back as the Inca era, the scales of the Oreshti fish shimmered there in the depths of Lake Titicaca, which was worshipped as the abode of the gods.

Lake Titicaca is 250 kilometers long and is the narrowest freshwater lake in South America. The Incas often held great ceremonies on the lake,

praying to be freed or resurrected. The name Oleshti Fish comes from an ancient Greek mythological national legend about a beautiful young woman

who lived in the mountains.

In the early 1900s, the Indians who lived near the lake used the Oreshti fish as a staple food. This is how the Indians

boated and fished on the lake for hundreds of years. Their boats were made from reeds woven around the lake, and most

of them were fitted with masts so that they could chase the fish.

In 1937, Americans put trout into this lake. The trout was both a fast and voracious swimmer, and it fed in the same layer of water as the O

Leishti. Soon the oleshti, known as the wealth of Lake Titicaca, was victimized by the new invaders and squeezed out of existence, and after 1950 the oleshti was never seen again.

The oleshti was once a prayer for the return of the world to its original state. Lake Titicaca used to be a sacred lake to pray for resurrection, but the Oreshti fish did not get resurrected here

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