Encyclopedia of the Incas
The trial and error technique is perhaps not very convincing if one considers megalithic building blocks weighi ...
Santa Clara 1904–1929 [1603]). Indeed, a modern experiment at Ollantaytambo showed that a crew of 180 pe ...
Dean, Caroline. A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Ga ...
According to the tradition recorded by the Spaniards, however, the original speakers of the l ...
Quechua became the official language of the Inca Empire under the last Inca rulers, Topa Inca Yupanqui ...
the Quechua of Cuzco) which Spanish Colonial civil and church authorities promoted. Further Reading Adela ...
as determined by Harvard’s Quipu Database Project, is 60, while the median number is 27. On about ...
Three major types of knots were tied into quipu pendant, subsidiary, and top cords. The three kno ...
cord-keepers in regional administrative centers; down to local, village-level cord-keepers. Some evidence ...
Murra, J. V. “Las etnocategorías de un khipu estatal.” In Formaciones económicas y políticas en el mundo an ...
R RELACIONES GEOGRÁFICAS In 1577, the Spanish Crown drew up a set of 50 questions that were intended to ...
and prejudices of Crown officials. For instance, “Who were their rulers in heathen times? What rights did t ...
Our knowledge of Inca religion comes mainly from Spanish chronicles written in the sixteenth century, refl ...
the idea of creation. As a consequence, and despite the richness of Inca myths and rites included in th ...
sayhuas and sucancas, stone pillars used to observe solar movements; as well as huancas, standing stones r ...
Despite the fact that the Inca religious system was described as polytheistic because of the multiplicity of ...
observing the movement of the sun, the ceremonies also included the ritual movement of peo ...
Makowski, Krzysztof, ed. Los dioses del antiguo Perú. Vol.1 and 2. Lima: Banco de Crédito del Perú, 2000, 2001. ...
Two roads formed the backbone of the system: a highland road and a parallel coastal road. The highland roa ...
flights of steps as the road made its way across low-lying hills. Widths varied from 3 to 10 meters (10 f ...
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