#ancient inca

[kuzconianempire]

Kuzconian Empire Events & Celebrations:

Kuzcotheque (at least 2 times a year.)

Project Poncho (February 4)

Annual Cart Washing Fundraiser (February 17)

Kuzco Allegiance Day (April 10)

Kuzeaster (April 20)

Annual Auction for Charity (April 21)

Kuzarbor Day (April 25)

Annual Potato Growing Contest (June 23)

Kuzclub Week (week of June 24)

Annual Clash of the Families Festival. (July 1)

Mosty Awards (July 7)

Invention Day (July)

The Emperor's Shoptober Fest (All of October)

Monster Masquerade (October 14)

Kuzcarnival (October 15)

Annual Nut Festival (October 21)

Kuzcoween (October 31)

Novemperor First Sale (November 1)

Kuzco's Birthday Celebration (November)

Cornivale (November 27)

Wear Hats for Kuzco's Own Personal Amusement Day (unk)

Kuzmas (December 25)

Art Festival (January 14)

REAL ANCIENT INCAN CELEBRATIONS.

Inti Raymi (June 24)

Qoyllur Riti (Snow Star Festival) (May or June)

Pachamama Raymi (Feast of Mother Earth)

Warachikuy (Warrior Celebration) (September)

Qhapac Inti Raymi (Summer Solstice Festival) (Summer)

[ancientstuff]

The Incas Believed They Controlled the Water. New Evidence Uncovered by Archaeologists Shows How They Wielded It in Ceremonies

Using drones carrying lidar sensors, a team of archaeologists was able to uncover a unique water structure at Machu Picchu.

To me, the use of channels and hydraulic systems as evidence that the Inca were water-gods seems like a self-fulfilling kind of notion. I wonder which came first?

[usssnarfblat]

[learninglinguist]

We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything

A lost language encoded in intricate cords is finally revealing its secrets – and it could upend what we know about Incan history and culture

The Incas may not have bequeathed any written records, but they did have colourful knotted cords. Each of these devices was called a khipu (pronounced key-poo). We know these intricate cords to be an abacus-like system for recording numbers. However, there have also been teasing hints that they might encode long-lost stories, myths and songs too.  

In a century of study, no one has managed to make these knots talk. But recent breakthroughs have begun to unpick this tangled mystery of the Andes, revealing the first signs of phonetic symbolism within the strands. Now two anthropologists are closing in on the Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone. That could finally crack the code and transform our understanding of a civilisation whose history has so far been told only through the eyes of the Europeans who sought to eviscerate it.

I’ve been loosely following developments in research about khipus since reading about them in an obscure paragraph in the back of my high school history textbook and every time I read more about them, it’s more and more exciting. 

[professor-buffalo-blog]

Here is another collection of photos that I took of the ruins of Machu Picchu while I was down in Peru on one of greatest adventures of my life.

[professor-buffalo-blog]

While not my usual photography topic for this site, these photos of Machu Picchu were from an inspirational trip to Peru that really pulled me into photography. Several years ago, I had the opportunity of a lifetime to hike the Ancient Inca Trail to the ruins of Machu Picchu. I thought it would be interesting to include photos of various parts of the ruins of Machu Picchu instead of just a few of the classic views that these ruins are often photographed from.

The top photo is a popular view of the ruins taken while facing North toward Huayna Picchu (Young Peak) which rises up behind the ruins. The third photo is looking South back toward where I took the top photo and thus shows the ruins from a more unusual angle. The lower slopes of Machu Picchu (Old Peak) rise up just beyond the ruins that are named after it. In between the various photos are cropped images of the various styles of stonework that are found throughout the ruins.

[24indianews-blog]

2 tourists were arrested for taking nude selfies at Machu Picchu

2 tourists were arrested for taking nude selfies at Machu Picchu

TWO tourists have been arrested by Peruvian tourism police for taking nude selfies at the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. Culture Ministry guards alerted tourism police last Wednesday to the presence of two tourists in the agricultural area of the archaeological park taking nude selfies with a mobile phone. Peruvian police arrested Frenchman Eric Xavier Mariec and Englishman Adam Burton,…

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