The Sacred Landscape of the Inca : : The Cusco Ceque System / / Brian S. Bauer.

The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines)...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Original Ceque System Manuscript
  • 3 Huacas
  • 4 The Social Organization of Cusco and Its Ceque System
  • 5 The Huacas and Ceques of Chinchaysuyu
  • 6 The Huacas and Ceques of Antisuyu
  • 7 The Huacas and Ceques of Collasuyu
  • 8 The Huacas and Ceques of Cuntisuyu
  • 9 Albornoz and the Cusco Ceque System
  • 10 Systems of Huacas and Ceques: Past and Present
  • 11 An Overview of the Cusco Ceque System
  • Appendix 1: Rowe's (1980) and Zuidema's (1964) Numbering Systems for the Cusco Ceque System
  • Appendix 2: Account of the shrines of Cuzco (Bernabé Cobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, ms. 1653, Book Thirteen, Chapters 13-16). English translation by John H. Rowe
  • Appendix 3: Suggested Glosses of Huaca Names
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Huaca Names
  • Index of Ceques