Book
The sacred landscape of the Inca: the Cusco ceque system
University of Texas Press • Austin • Published In 1998 • Pages:
By: Bauer, Brian S..
Abstract
In this work Bauer attempts to reconstruct the Cusco CEQUE system, a ritual system composed of several hundred shrines or HUACAS roughly located along a series of forty-one lines or CEQUES radiating from the Temple of the Sun in Cusco. This document describes how the Inka people, both nobles and commoners, worshipped at and maintained these shrines and how these shrines were eventually destroyed by the Spaniards in their campaigns against idolatry. Appendix 2, ( pp. 165-177), written by Bernabé Cobo, presents a description of the shrines of Cusco and the names of the various CEQUES along which they were located. Margot Beyersdorff, in appendix 3, (pp. 179-210) , provides an index of the specific names of the shrines in the Cusco CESQUE system along with the translation of these names into Quechua, Spanish, and English, their position along the CEQUES, and their location in each of the four quarters (SUYUS) into which the Inka empire was divided.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field Date
- 1990-1995
- Coverage Date
- 1532-ca. 1600
- Coverage Place
- Cusco (Cuzco) city and valley, Peru
- Notes
- Brian S. Bauer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and indexes
- LCCN
- 97049914
- LCSH
- Incas