ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transvestism, Johan Reinhard, Coricancha
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October 2 sacred geography: into the realm of the inca 5178 words. Geography of peru, the driest desert, the fecund sea, the soaring. Andes and the endless forests of the amazon. Verticality, the model for the expansion of empires, chavin (1500 bce), the spark of a religious idea, the ebb and flow of empire, moche (100-800 ad) and. Chimu (900-1470 ad) from the northern coast, tiawanaku (300-1000. Ad) and the inca from the sierra, nazca (100 bce-800 ad) and. Paracas (800 bce -100 bce) in the rivers of the pacific. There was in fact nearly 3500 years of history before the rise of the inca. Not that you"d hear that from the inca. When the spaniards asked about the origins of the inca empire they were told of a time of darkness and a great flood sent to the world by the creator wiracocha.
