A very important leader in the Inca civilization is a man named Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui; translates to earthquake. He was a very important figure because he was able to rise on top amongst all his other competitors. He rules the valley of Cuzco and managed to build an empire that stretched from Quito (present day Equator) to Santiago (present day Chile). This coverage was about 3,400 miles long and gave homes to twelve million people. A successful empire is an understatement. Because of Pachacuti, the organization of the towns were radial, and incorporates Inca knowledge from the sky.
Cuzco is located in the Andes mountains, and the cites was supposedly laid out to look like a Puma (enormous granite walls form the shape of the head). …show more content…
In their drawings they show constellations, for example, in the diagram on page 152, The Inca Coricancha drawn by chronicler Joan Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui demonstrated Orion, the Southern Cross of Orion, the Sun, Venus, the evening star, morning star, the Moon, and Stars of the Summer. This is important because once the spainrds came to these civilizations their first instinct was to conform them, which is what normally happened. These few diagrams we have left is the puzzle pieces’ historian’s have been trying to piece together for a very long time. The Inca Coricancha represents a lot more than the sky’s configurations. This diagram also represents duality and verticality in Andean cosmology. For example, the duality of day and night, sun and moon, etc. “Note the rather concrete information about both the flow of water and the sky in this passage and the way information about the environment is directly ties with aspects of everyday life” (159). This sentence is referring to a passage from Cabo as he talks about the 328 huacas (refer to next paragraph). This theme of having one thing pair with another in order to keep order is very relevant though out the reading. Duality and verticality are very important themes of this chapter, and also what can parallel with today. Ancient civilizations before us had the right idea way before we did. They made things work, made things happen, and it is incredible.
The Ceque system is a mnemonic map system that incorporated the sky and was used to unify Inca ideas about religion, social organization, calendar, hydrology, and astronomy (156). huacas, or sacred places in the landscape that could allow a sacrifice to go down properly. These places were very important for the Incas, here was a total of 328
Cuzco is located in the Andes mountains, and the cites was supposedly laid out to look like a Puma (enormous granite walls form the shape of the head). …show more content…
In their drawings they show constellations, for example, in the diagram on page 152, The Inca Coricancha drawn by chronicler Joan Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui demonstrated Orion, the Southern Cross of Orion, the Sun, Venus, the evening star, morning star, the Moon, and Stars of the Summer. This is important because once the spainrds came to these civilizations their first instinct was to conform them, which is what normally happened. These few diagrams we have left is the puzzle pieces’ historian’s have been trying to piece together for a very long time. The Inca Coricancha represents a lot more than the sky’s configurations. This diagram also represents duality and verticality in Andean cosmology. For example, the duality of day and night, sun and moon, etc. “Note the rather concrete information about both the flow of water and the sky in this passage and the way information about the environment is directly ties with aspects of everyday life” (159). This sentence is referring to a passage from Cabo as he talks about the 328 huacas (refer to next paragraph). This theme of having one thing pair with another in order to keep order is very relevant though out the reading. Duality and verticality are very important themes of this chapter, and also what can parallel with today. Ancient civilizations before us had the right idea way before we did. They made things work, made things happen, and it is incredible.
The Ceque system is a mnemonic map system that incorporated the sky and was used to unify Inca ideas about religion, social organization, calendar, hydrology, and astronomy (156). huacas, or sacred places in the landscape that could allow a sacrifice to go down properly. These places were very important for the Incas, here was a total of 328