Huaca Myth

The Inca civilization was also filled with shrines around natural monuments such as mountains, caves, rivers, and other naturally occurring earth formations. These shrines were called huacas. Huacas were erected in locations where the Incan people of the region believed that they originated from. For example, in Cuzco there were many huacas marked into the side of hills and mountains because that is the location that they believed the origin of their people came from. Each area of the Inca empire included a principle huaca that would be worshipped as that locations patron. When a new part of South America was captured and new people were brought into the Incan world, they established their principle huaca and a statue of that huaca was then
Titicaca is referenced many times throughout their history and is the most important and the very first huaca of the Inca people. The myth of Titicaca goes as follows. The Inca people were surround in the dark for many days without the sun rising again after it had set beneath the horizon. Finally, the sun has rose again and was first seen rising out a of crag from the island of Titicaca. This image lead the Inca to believe that the sun and the sun god, Inti lived in that crag. Therefore, they must bring sacrifices and worship Inti from Titicaca so that they may never again go without light. This continued as a ritual through the length of the Inca civilization and lead to the creation of many more important
Not much is known about his life except that he was located somewhere between the capital, Cuzco, and Lake Titicaca. His work was one of the most influential in our understand of Incan civilization today through his famous piece, Relacion de la antiguedades de este reyno del Piru dating back to 1613. In his writing, he included a famous picture depicting the sky as the Inca viewed it. It included images of Inti, the sun god, Constellations such as orions belt and the southern crux. The image was then used as a celestial map that really sparked the search for astrological evidence in the Inca world by outlining the knowledge that they had of the heavens. Because of the lack of personal records that the Inca kept, it remains as one of the only references of astrological culture for the