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The prominent building with the rounded outside wall is the Torreón (tower) which is popularly called the Temple of the Sun. The shaped stone enclosed within the Torreón is reported to receive a ray of sun light through the east facing window during the June solstice. However, the Torreón and its associated structures are aligned 350-170 degrees focusing on Huayna and Machu Picchu Mountains. The shaped stone and the architectural alignment suggest that mountain worship may have been a primary ceremonial function. This is the only building with curved walls in Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu is a famous and iconic Inca city, situated on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes high above the Urubamba Valley at a 2430 m. Work began on Machu Picchu around 1430. It was abandoned in the 1530s as the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire--even though the Spanish never discovered this city which explains why this site is well-preserved. The city probably was abandoned before it was completed. It was rediscovered only in 1911.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobe. The temple used to be covered by a layer of red plaster which can be seen on the wall at the bottom left.
Palenque is a magnificent ancient Mayan city, located in the north of the high lands of the state of Chiapas (Mexico). The site was occupied from the 100 BC, but his golden age was between 600 and 800 AD. Pakal I, who was buried inside the Temple of Inscripciones, was one of his greats kings.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobe. The temple used to be covered by a layer of red plaster which has mostly eroded away.
Templo del Sol - El Torreón ( vista desde arriba )
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Conjunto 2
Templo del Sol
Se accede a él por una portada de doble jamba, que permanecía cerrada ( hay restos de un mecanismo de seguridad ). La edificación principal es conocida como Torreón, de bloques finamente labrados. Fue usado para ceremonias relacionadas con el solsticio de junio. Una de sus ventanas muestra huellas de haber tenido ornamentos incrustados que fueron arrancados en algún momento de la historia de Machu Picchu, destruyendo parte de su estructura. Además hay huellas de un gran incendio en el lugar.
El Torreón
está construido sobre una gran roca debajo de la cual hay una pequeña cueva que ha sido forrada completamente con mampostería fina. Se cree que fue un mausoleo y que en sus grandes hornacinas reposaban momias. Lumbreras incluso especula que hay indicios para afirmar que pudo ser el mausoleo de Pachacutec y que su momia estuvo aquí hasta poco después de la irrupción española en Cuzco.
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The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
Pachacamac is a desert site, but the city was built next to the Lurín river valley which brings reliable water and creates a green strip of irrigated and fertile land that could be used for food production.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobes. The principal side of the temple faces the Pacific and has a number of niches that possibly served to deposit offerings. On top of the temple, there was an open space surrounded by smaller structures.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares. It lies at the mouth of the Lurín River, close to the Pacific shore, some 30 km south of Lima and is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes. This is the view from the top of the Sun Temple--from here you can see the vastness of the site. The modern town of Pachacamac is in the background, disappearing in the fog.
This is my lovely tour guide who gave me a private tour of Pachacamac.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobes. The principal side of the temple faces the Pacific (opposite) and has a number of niches that possibly served to deposit offerings.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobe. The temple used to be covered by a layer of red plaster which can be seen on the wall at the bottom
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Templo del Sol - El Torreón
debajo la gran roca hay una pequeña cueva
con la roca labrada que da ingreso al llamado Mausoleo Real
" Mausoleo de Pachacutec "
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Conjunto 2
Templo del Sol
Se accede a él por una portada de doble jamba, que permanecía cerrada ( hay restos de un mecanismo de seguridad ). La edificación principal es conocida como Torreón, de bloques finamente labrados. Fue usado para ceremonias relacionadas con el solsticio de junio. Una de sus ventanas muestra huellas de haber tenido ornamentos incrustados que fueron arrancados en algún momento de la historia de Machu Picchu, destruyendo parte de su estructura. Además hay huellas de un gran incendio en el lugar.
El Torreón
está construido sobre una gran roca debajo de la cual hay una pequeña cueva que ha sido forrada completamente con mampostería fina. Se cree que fue un mausoleo y que en sus grandes hornacinas reposaban momias. Lumbreras incluso especula que hay indicios para afirmar que pudo ser el mausoleo de Pachacutec y que su momia estuvo aquí hasta poco después de la irrupción española en Cuzco.
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Colonial Qorikancha: The Dominican Priory
After the conquest of Peru in 1532, Qorikancha passed into the hands of the Spaniards and its treasures were looted. When the lands and buildings of Cusco were shared among the conquerors, the Main Temple was given to Juan Pizarro, brother of Francisco Pizarro (the leader of the conquerors of Peru). Before his death, Juan Pizarro decided to donate Qorikancha to the Dominicans, the first religious order in the history of the Christianisation of Peru (the Dominican Friar Vicente Valverde accompanied Pizarro's expedition). The donation was received by Friar Juan de Oliaz.
The Saint Dominic Priory of Cusco, founded in 1534, was the first Dominican Priory in Peru. A part of its Inca structures was destroyed and their stones were used in the construction of the Catholic temple. However, several of the Pre-Columbian buildings were left intact and were incorporated into the Colonial architecture of the first courtyard of the Priory, where they can be observed today.
The most outstanding element of the colonial architecture of the Priory is the temple's unique bell-tower richly decorated with baroque stone carvings in a peculiar Cusco 'curly' style, built in the 18th century.
In the course of the 17-18th centuries the Dominican friars of Qorikancha put together an excellent collection of colonial religious art, mainly of the celebrated Cusco school. These pieces today are on exhibition in the Colonial Art Gallery (Pinacoteca).
Today a community of Dominican friars still lives in the Priory, giving the public access to the archaeological, historical and artistic treasures of Qorikancha. Also the International Novitiate of the Dominican Order (the school where young friars are prepared) is permanently located here.
Qoricancha (Templo del Sol)
The extraordinarily crafted Temple of the Sun was the most sumptuous temple in the Inca Empire and the apogee of the Incas' naturalistic belief system. Some 4,000 of the highest-ranking priests and their attendants were housed here. Dedicated to worship of the sun, it was apparently a glittering palace straight out of El Dorado legend: Qoricancha means "golden courtyard" in Quechua, and in addition to hundreds of gold panels lining its walls, there were life-size gold figures, solid-gold altars, and a huge golden sun disc. The sun disc reflected the sun and bathed the temple in light. During the summer solstice, the sun still shines directly into a niche where only the Inca chieftain was permitted to sit. Other temples and shrines existed for the worship of lesser natural gods: the moon, Venus, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. Qoricancha was the main astronomical observatory for the Incas.
After the Spaniards ransacked the temple and emptied it of gold (which they melted down, of course), the exquisite polished stone walls were employed as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed in the 17th century. The baroque church pales next to the fine stonemasonry of the Incas -- and that's to say nothing about the original glory of the Sun Temple. Today all that remains is Inca stonework. Thankfully, a large section of the cloister has been removed, revealing four original chambers of the temple, all smoothly tapered examples of Inca trapezoidal architecture. Stand on the small platform in the first chamber and see the perfect symmetry of openings in the stone chambers. A series of Inca stones displayed reveals the fascinating concept of male and female blocks, and how they fit together. The 6m (20-ft.) curved wall beneath the west end of the church, visible from the street, remains undamaged by repeated earthquakes and is perhaps the greatest extant example of Inca stonework. The curvature and fit of the massive dark stones is astounding.
Once the Spaniards took Cusco, Francisco Pizarro's brother Juan was given the eviscerated Temple of the Sun. He died soon afterward, though, at the battle at Sacsayhuamán, and he left the temple to the Dominicans, in whose hands it remains.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
Pachacamac is a desert site, but the city was built next to the Lurín river valley which brings reliable water and creates a green strip of irrigated and fertile land that could be used for food production.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobes. The principal side of the temple faces the Pacific and has a number of niches that possibly served to deposit offerings. On top of the temple, there was an open space surrounded by smaller structures.
La forma magistral e imaginativa de trabajar la piedra por parte de los incas se basa en el aprovechamiento de las formas y emplazamientos naturales de las rocas, labrando lo necesario y aceptando las formas curvilíneas e irregulares, sin menoscabo de lograr ajustes perfectos en uniones de sillares insólitos e irrepetibles. Las formas logradas siempre asombran, especialmente a los ojos europeos, y en este caso concreto me recordaron a la estética modernista de un Gaudí.
Qoricancha (Templo del Sol)
The extraordinarily crafted Temple of the Sun was the most sumptuous temple in the Inca Empire and the apogee of the Incas' naturalistic belief system. Some 4,000 of the highest-ranking priests and their attendants were housed here. Dedicated to worship of the sun, it was apparently a glittering palace straight out of El Dorado legend: Qoricancha means "golden courtyard" in Quechua, and in addition to hundreds of gold panels lining its walls, there were life-size gold figures, solid-gold altars, and a huge golden sun disc. The sun disc reflected the sun and bathed the temple in light. During the summer solstice, the sun still shines directly into a niche where only the Inca chieftain was permitted to sit. Other temples and shrines existed for the worship of lesser natural gods: the moon, Venus, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. Qoricancha was the main astronomical observatory for the Incas.
After the Spaniards ransacked the temple and emptied it of gold (which they melted down, of course), the exquisite polished stone walls were employed as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed in the 17th century. The baroque church pales next to the fine stonemasonry of the Incas -- and that's to say nothing about the original glory of the Sun Temple. Today all that remains is Inca stonework. Thankfully, a large section of the cloister has been removed, revealing four original chambers of the temple, all smoothly tapered examples of Inca trapezoidal architecture. Stand on the small platform in the first chamber and see the perfect symmetry of openings in the stone chambers. A series of Inca stones displayed reveals the fascinating concept of male and female blocks, and how they fit together. The 6m (20-ft.) curved wall beneath the west end of the church, visible from the street, remains undamaged by repeated earthquakes and is perhaps the greatest extant example of Inca stonework. The curvature and fit of the massive dark stones is astounding.
Once the Spaniards took Cusco, Francisco Pizarro's brother Juan was given the eviscerated Temple of the Sun. He died soon afterward, though, at the battle at Sacsayhuamán, and he left the temple to the Dominicans, in whose hands it remains.
The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobe. The temple used to be covered by a layer of red plaster which has mostly eroded away.
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Mujeres en el pozo escalonado del Templo del Sol, en Mothera (Guyarat-India), 2015.
Women in the step well of the Sun Temple, at Mothera (Gujarat-India), 2015.
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Patio of the Convent of Santo Domingo, built over the Incan Koricancha ("The Temple of the Sun"). Cusco. Perú.
Part of the Incan temple is very well kept inside the Catholic structure, as one may notice...
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Entrance to a classic Incan housing block with the belfry of Santo Domingo on the background. Cusco. Perú.
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Qoricancha (Templo del Sol)
The extraordinarily crafted Temple of the Sun was the most sumptuous temple in the Inca Empire and the apogee of the Incas' naturalistic belief system. Some 4,000 of the highest-ranking priests and their attendants were housed here. Dedicated to worship of the sun, it was apparently a glittering palace straight out of El Dorado legend: Qoricancha means "golden courtyard" in Quechua, and in addition to hundreds of gold panels lining its walls, there were life-size gold figures, solid-gold altars, and a huge golden sun disc. The sun disc reflected the sun and bathed the temple in light. During the summer solstice, the sun still shines directly into a niche where only the Inca chieftain was permitted to sit. Other temples and shrines existed for the worship of lesser natural gods: the moon, Venus, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. Qoricancha was the main astronomical observatory for the Incas.
After the Spaniards ransacked the temple and emptied it of gold (which they melted down, of course), the exquisite polished stone walls were employed as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed in the 17th century. The baroque church pales next to the fine stonemasonry of the Incas -- and that's to say nothing about the original glory of the Sun Temple. Today all that remains is Inca stonework. Thankfully, a large section of the cloister has been removed, revealing four original chambers of the temple, all smoothly tapered examples of Inca trapezoidal architecture. Stand on the small platform in the first chamber and see the perfect symmetry of openings in the stone chambers. A series of Inca stones displayed reveals the fascinating concept of male and female blocks, and how they fit together. The 6m (20-ft.) curved wall beneath the west end of the church, visible from the street, remains undamaged by repeated earthquakes and is perhaps the greatest extant example of Inca stonework. The curvature and fit of the massive dark stones is astounding.
Once the Spaniards took Cusco, Francisco Pizarro's brother Juan was given the eviscerated Temple of the Sun. He died soon afterward, though, at the battle at Sacsayhuamán, and he left the temple to the Dominicans, in whose hands it remains.
Qoricancha (Templo del Sol)
The extraordinarily crafted Temple of the Sun was the most sumptuous temple in the Inca Empire and the apogee of the Incas' naturalistic belief system. Some 4,000 of the highest-ranking priests and their attendants were housed here. Dedicated to worship of the sun, it was apparently a glittering palace straight out of El Dorado legend: Qoricancha means "golden courtyard" in Quechua, and in addition to hundreds of gold panels lining its walls, there were life-size gold figures, solid-gold altars, and a huge golden sun disc. The sun disc reflected the sun and bathed the temple in light. During the summer solstice, the sun still shines directly into a niche where only the Inca chieftain was permitted to sit. Other temples and shrines existed for the worship of lesser natural gods: the moon, Venus, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. Qoricancha was the main astronomical observatory for the Incas.
After the Spaniards ransacked the temple and emptied it of gold (which they melted down, of course), the exquisite polished stone walls were employed as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed in the 17th century. The baroque church pales next to the fine stonemasonry of the Incas -- and that's to say nothing about the original glory of the Sun Temple. Today all that remains is Inca stonework. Thankfully, a large section of the cloister has been removed, revealing four original chambers of the temple, all smoothly tapered examples of Inca trapezoidal architecture. Stand on the small platform in the first chamber and see the perfect symmetry of openings in the stone chambers. A series of Inca stones displayed reveals the fascinating concept of male and female blocks, and how they fit together. The 6m (20-ft.) curved wall beneath the west end of the church, visible from the street, remains undamaged by repeated earthquakes and is perhaps the greatest extant example of Inca stonework. The curvature and fit of the massive dark stones is astounding.
Once the Spaniards took Cusco, Francisco Pizarro's brother Juan was given the eviscerated Temple of the Sun. He died soon afterward, though, at the battle at Sacsayhuamán, and he left the temple to the Dominicans, in whose hands it remains.
Qoricancha (Templo del Sol)
The extraordinarily crafted Temple of the Sun was the most sumptuous temple in the Inca Empire and the apogee of the Incas' naturalistic belief system. Some 4,000 of the highest-ranking priests and their attendants were housed here. Dedicated to worship of the sun, it was apparently a glittering palace straight out of El Dorado legend: Qoricancha means "golden courtyard" in Quechua, and in addition to hundreds of gold panels lining its walls, there were life-size gold figures, solid-gold altars, and a huge golden sun disc. The sun disc reflected the sun and bathed the temple in light. During the summer solstice, the sun still shines directly into a niche where only the Inca chieftain was permitted to sit. Other temples and shrines existed for the worship of lesser natural gods: the moon, Venus, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. Qoricancha was the main astronomical observatory for the Incas.
After the Spaniards ransacked the temple and emptied it of gold (which they melted down, of course), the exquisite polished stone walls were employed as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed in the 17th century. The baroque church pales next to the fine stonemasonry of the Incas -- and that's to say nothing about the original glory of the Sun Temple. Today all that remains is Inca stonework. Thankfully, a large section of the cloister has been removed, revealing four original chambers of the temple, all smoothly tapered examples of Inca trapezoidal architecture. Stand on the small platform in the first chamber and see the perfect symmetry of openings in the stone chambers. A series of Inca stones displayed reveals the fascinating concept of male and female blocks, and how they fit together. The 6m (20-ft.) curved wall beneath the west end of the church, visible from the street, remains undamaged by repeated earthquakes and is perhaps the greatest extant example of Inca stonework. The curvature and fit of the massive dark stones is astounding.
Once the Spaniards took Cusco, Francisco Pizarro's brother Juan was given the eviscerated Temple of the Sun. He died soon afterward, though, at the battle at Sacsayhuamán, and he left the temple to the Dominicans, in whose hands it remains.
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The pre-Columbian monumental site of Pachacamac covers an area of almost 600 hectares (1500 acres); it is located on the Pacific coast at the edge of the valley of the Lurín river, about 40 km southeast of Lima. Most of the common buildings and temples were built 800-1450. Archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids on the site. Several have been uncovered, but most are lost. It is considered to be one of the most important ancient settlements of the Central Andes.
The Sun Temple (Templo del Sol) was built by the Inca culture between 1470 and 1533. It is a trapezoidal building made of terraces and platforms of adobe. The temple used to be covered by a layer of red plaster which has mostly eroded away.
Technical: Aperture f/6.3, shutter speed 1/125, focus on bee and blue borage plant, natural light, 12:32 pm, lens 300mm.
Composition: Space. Rule of thirds. Color harmony blue and magenta. Color contrast blue and yellow.
Content: Bees around Blue Borage at Qorikancha gardens.
Borage is not only a honey plant, but also one of the most famous ancient spices and a valuable herb. It is traditionally cultivated as a vegetable type and spice, but it is also gwon for pharmaceutical purposes, because of the oil extracted from its seeds, which is often called “star flower oil” or “borage oil”. Special honey plants are characterized mainly by the beneficial effect they have for honey production.
Medicine:
Its leaves and flowers have anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and tranquilizing effect. It is also used as a diuretic and has a beneficial effect for stomach, kidney and rheumatic pains.
Cosmetics:
The plant is used as an ingredient of many skin rejuvenating lotions and creams.
Organic farming:
It is mainly used for soil fertilization.
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El recinto de oro; como era conocido, era un lugar sagrado donde se rendía adoración al máximo dios Inca: el Inti (Sol), por lo que sólo podían entrar en ayunas, descalzos y con una carga en la espalda en señal de humildad, según lo indicaba el sumo sacerdote Inca: Willaq Umu.
The temple of Pachacamac is an archaeological site 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. Most of the common buildings and temples were built c. 800-1450 CE, shortly before the arrival and conquest by the Inca Empire.
To date, several pyramids have been uncovered; archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids. Besides pyramids, the site had a cemetery and multicolored fresco of fish from the Early Intermediate period (c. 200-600 CE). Later, the Huari (c. 600-800 CE) constructed the city, probably using it as an administrative center. A number of Huari-influenced designs appear on the structures and on the ceramics and textiles found in the cemeteries of this period. After the collapse of the Huari empire, Pachacamac continued to grow as a religious center. The majority of the common architecture and temples were built during this stage (c. 800-1450 CE). y the time the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Confederacy) invaded the area, the valleys of the Rímac and Lurín had a small state which the people called Ichma., They used Pachacamac primarily as a religious site for the veneration of the Pacha Kamaq, the creator god. The Ichma joined the Incan Empire, which used Pachacamac as an important administrative center. The Inca maintained it as a religious shrine and allowed the Pachacamac priests to continue functioning independently of the Inca priesthood. This included the oracle, whom the Inca presumably consulted. The Inca built five additional buildings, including a temple to the sun on the main square.
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Composition: Luxury Inca´s imperial walls.
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Qorikancha-Outside walls from Enclosure of the Stars
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Temple dedicated to the stars, servants of the moon, daughters of the sun and the moon.
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La ciudad de Palenque floreciò durante el período clásico, y su esplendor se prolongo desde el año 300 hasta el 900 d.c. aunque alcanzó su cenit en el siglo VII d.c.bajo el gobierno de 2 soberanos, Pacal y Chan Bahlum.
Vista del templo de la cruz foliada desde el templo del sol.
Qorikancha of the Incas: Deities and their Cults
Colonial chronicles writers disagree in numbers and description of the Inca deities venerated in Qorikancha and the location of their respective precincts.
The celebrated author of mixed Indian-Spanish origin Garcilaso was a temple dedicated to the Sun god (Inti), located in the western part of the courtyard, where nowadays the Temple of Saint Dominic is standing. On the other sides of the temple dedicated to the Moon (Killa), the Sun's wife; the temple of the planet Venus (Ch'aska) and the stars (Qoullur); that of the thunder and lightning (Illapa); that of the rainbow (K'uychi) and the chamber of the high priest (Willaq Umu).
Father Bernabe Cobo in his History of the New World says that the most important image of the Qorikancha was called P'unchau: "It was a sculptural image called Punchau, which means 'day', all made of the finest gold, with exquisite richness of jewellery, his figure with a human face, surrounded with rays, like we use to paint (the sun); it was placed in such a way that it faced the east, and when the sun came out, its light fell on the image; and as it was a very fine metal plate, the sun rays reverberated and were reflected with such a shining that it looked like the sun itself. Indians said that together with its light, the sun communicated its virtue to the image."
The Indian author Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti affirms that the main deity venerated at Qorikancha was the creator god Viraqocha, who was represented by an oval gold plate.
Besides all these deities, mummies of the Inca emperors and their wives were venerated at Qorikancha, as ancestor protectors of the royal dynasty and of the whole Empire.
The temple of Pachacamac is an archaeological site 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. Most of the common buildings and temples were built c. 800-1450 CE, shortly before the arrival and conquest by the Inca Empire.
To date, several pyramids have been uncovered; archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids. Besides pyramids, the site had a cemetery and multicolored fresco of fish from the Early Intermediate period (c. 200-600 CE). Later, the Huari (c. 600-800 CE) constructed the city, probably using it as an administrative center. A number of Huari-influenced designs appear on the structures and on the ceramics and textiles found in the cemeteries of this period. After the collapse of the Huari empire, Pachacamac continued to grow as a religious center. The majority of the common architecture and temples were built during this stage (c. 800-1450 CE). y the time the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Confederacy) invaded the area, the valleys of the Rímac and Lurín had a small state which the people called Ichma., They used Pachacamac primarily as a religious site for the veneration of the Pacha Kamaq, the creator god. The Ichma joined the Incan Empire, which used Pachacamac as an important administrative center. The Inca maintained it as a religious shrine and allowed the Pachacamac priests to continue functioning independently of the Inca priesthood. This included the oracle, whom the Inca presumably consulted. The Inca built five additional buildings, including a temple to the sun on the main square.
The temple of Pachacamac is an archaeological site 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. Most of the common buildings and temples were built c. 800-1450 CE, shortly before the arrival and conquest by the Inca Empire.
To date, several pyramids have been uncovered; archaeologists have identified at least 17 pyramids. Besides pyramids, the site had a cemetery and multicolored fresco of fish from the Early Intermediate period (c. 200-600 CE). Later, the Huari (c. 600-800 CE) constructed the city, probably using it as an administrative center. A number of Huari-influenced designs appear on the structures and on the ceramics and textiles found in the cemeteries of this period. After the collapse of the Huari empire, Pachacamac continued to grow as a religious center. The majority of the common architecture and temples were built during this stage (c. 800-1450 CE). y the time the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Confederacy) invaded the area, the valleys of the Rímac and Lurín had a small state which the people called Ichma., They used Pachacamac primarily as a religious site for the veneration of the Pacha Kamaq, the creator god. The Ichma joined the Incan Empire, which used Pachacamac as an important administrative center. The Inca maintained it as a religious shrine and allowed the Pachacamac priests to continue functioning independently of the Inca priesthood. This included the oracle, whom the Inca presumably consulted. The Inca built five additional buildings, including a temple to the sun on the main square.