receded. Garcilaso maintains that during lunar eclipses the howling of tied and
beaten dogs awakened the moon from her sickness. In the afterlife, dogs were
occasionally encountered by, or associated with, humans in their journeys after
death.
Further Reading
Cobo, Bernabé. History of the Inca Empire: An Account of the Indians’ Customs and Their Origin, Together
with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History and Social Institutions. Translated and edited by Roland
Hamilton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979 [1653].
Donkin, R. A. The Muscovy Duck, Cairina moschata domestica: Origins, Dispersal, and Associated Aspects
of the Geography of Domestication. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1989.
Gade, Daniel W. “The Guinea Pig in Andean Folk Culture.” Geographical Review 57, no. 2: 213–24, 1967.
Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru. Translated by
Harold V. Livermore. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966 [1609].
Gilmore, Raymond M. “Fauna and Ethnozoology of South America.” In Handbook of South American
Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward, Vol. 6, 345–464. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1950.
González, Carlos, Hugo Rosati, and Francisco Sánchez. Guaman Poma. Testigo del Mundo Andino.
Santiago: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2002.
Murra, John V. The Economic Organization of the Inka State. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980.
Polo Ondegardo, Juan. “Of the Lineage of the Yncas, and How They Extended Their Conquests.” In
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas, translated and edited by Clements R. Markham. Works
issued by the Hakluyt Society, No. 48. London: Hakluyt Society, 1873.
Salomon, Frank, and George L. Urioste, eds. and trans. The Huarochirí Manuscript. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1991.
Steele, Paul R. Handbook of Inca Mythology. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Wheeler, Jane C. “South American Camelids—Past, Present and Future.” Journal of Camelid Science 5: 1–
24, 2012.
Xerez, Francisco de. Verdadera Relación de la Conquista del Peru y la Provincia de Cuzco. Colección de
Libros Raros y Curiósos que Tratan de América, vol. 1. Madrid: J. C. García, 1891.
Zárate, Agustín de. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru. Translated by Thomas Nicholas. London: Penguin
Press, 1933.
■PETER W. STAHL
ANTISUYU
The Inca suyu or quadrant of Antisuyu embraced the forested slopes of the
Andes to just west of north and just south of east of Cuzco. At the same time,
Antisuyu was one of the quadrants of the capital, whose plaza served as the axis
of the empire’s territorial divisions and, by extension, the roads to the four suyus.
Along with Chinchaysuyu, it formed the upper, or hanan, half of
Tahuantinsuyu, the “four parts bound together” that comprised the Inca Empire.
Some scholars believe that Antisuyu included the entire eastern slope and
adjoining tropical lowlands along the length of Tahuantinsuyu rather than the
wedge-shaped area north and east of Cuzco, but the evidence weighs in favor of