Encyclopedia of the Incas

CABELLO VALBOA, MIGUEL Born in Archidona, Málaga, Spain, sometime between 1530 and 1535, Cabello Valboa ...

CALANCHA, ANTONIO DE LA Born in Chuquisaca (Sucre), Bolivia, in 1584, Calancha entered the order of St. Au ...

Inca culture was best described by the early Spanish chroniclers who were able to consult the pre-Spanish memorie ...

41 (9 + 9 + 9 + 14) ceques. For calendrical reconstruction here, we assume that the number and arrangement of ...

known as the sidereal lunar cycle. In order to represent the sequence of months based on the sidereal ...

An array of offerings that accompanied one of the Capac Hucha sacrifices on the summit of Llullallaico in Ar ...

provinces had accepted Inca rule, once a year the foremost huacas from around Tahuantinsuyu were r ...

rites performed during the Capac Huchas on the basis of these discoveries. Unlike the cyclical Capac ...

could speak, but also that it had the power to make other oracles speak (see Oracles). The ...

stone-sized river cobbles—perhaps an allusion to Catequil, a weather god who was believed to punish offenders ...

records. In fact, we are also told that census figures were collected and recorded according to age-gra ...

is now lost. The original source of information on the ceque system was a quipu (knotted-string accounting device ...

distances across the Andean countryside, such as one that extended from Cuzco to Lake Titicaca and ...

Inca ceramics are divided into seven types, based on their shapes: (1) aríbalos (tall- necked jars); (2) ot ...

vessel shape, to facilitate comparative research with Inca materials from the provinces. In Meyers’s ...

and bar motif, flanked on either side by the genealogical tree motif (formerly described as the fern patter ...

(Form 13) plate constitutes the second most common vessel category in the imperial assemblage an ...

■TAMARA L. BRAY CHICHA This term, which today refers to maize beer or other fermented beverages consumed ...

The tall-necked jar with a conical bottom, known as an aríbalo, was used to store and serve chicha, maize ...

ground to make chicha, by soaking, boiling, and fermenting. Although chicha can be produced from other f ...