Encyclopedia of the Incas
Andes sometime before 1585, serving as parish priest in Capachica on Lake Titicaca and perhaps in Curahuasi, ...
The manuscripts of Murúa’s history and genealogy of the Incas contain a tremendous amount of information about the li ...
A woman beats on a large drum as men from Collasuyu play flutes in this drawing by Felipe Guaman Poma ...
The chronicler Pedro de Cieza de León wrote about the intergenerational oral transmission of history th ...
the five-note (pentatonic) scale prevailed in Inca times has been debunked by recent scholars for lack ...
eventually defeat Spanish rule and Catholicism and secure the return of the Incas and the huacas. Further Reading Cieza ...
A watercolor in the chronicle of Martín de Murúa shows the founding of Cuzco by the mythical Inca ruler M ...
Titicaca and ending with the emergence of the Inca ancestors from a cave in Pacariqtambo. The myths set ...
along with his three brothers and four sisters, referred to as the Ayar siblings. The Inca ancestors ...
beginning of the entry of Inca mythical history, or mythohistory, into world history. Further Reading ...
O ORACLES Oracles—sanctuaries where deities, through their spokespersons, gave answers to those who consulted ...
Every year the images of conquered provincial huacas were summoned to Cuzco to foretell the future. Guama ...
soothsayer who relates, who announces), the head priest of Inca religion. The Willac Umu lived in the ...
celebrated during the austral summer solstice, in December. It suggests that the ceremony was instituted by ...
destination of long-distance pilgrimages. According to Inca tradition, the Sun had appeared there for the firs ...
roads, and numerous other monumental structures. Thus, they transformed the shrine of Pachacamac into a magn ...
visited the sanctuary. Such an unfavorable prediction would have led them to side with Huascar, changing ...
Patterson, Thomas C. “Pachacamac—An Andean Oracle under the Inca Rule.” In Recent Studies in Andean Prehistory ...
P PACHACAMAC This term referred to two different, but ultimately interrelated, identities and concepts ...
Incas built other structures, including storehouses and an Acllahuasi (house of the chosen women). As for the meani ...
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