Word: inca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of such recent changes, much of Vicos culture remains as it was at a time before the arrival of the Spaniards. I spent the summer studying the institution of trial marriage which legend says was imposed on his subjects by the Inca himself. Four centuries of constant attack by the Church have had no influence in weakening this custom, and Vicos marriage remains an interesting mixture of pagan and Catholic traditions...
...intertwining of pre-conquest traditions and Spanish-Catholic customs evident in these marriage patterns is typical of sierra culture. Harvesting potatoes in a field high above Vicos, I often wondered whether I was on a medival manor or in an isolated corner of the Inca Empire...
...complex problems of the sierra region. If it fails, the government may well fear that the awakening population of the sierra will join with other discontented groups to bring about a revolution whose consequences could be felt far outside the borders of the world of the ancient Inca...
...First Inca. For four centuries, they grew farther and farther apart, and finally lost contact with each other. Then, from Tampu-Tocco, which had flourished as the capital of the Quechua tribe, came a new King named Manco Capac. Around A.D. 1200, according to Quechua legend, he and his many brothers "set out toward the hill over which the sun rose" reached the ancient Amauta capital of Cuzco, settled there and began to rebuild the empire of his ancestors...
Manco Capac called himself Inca (King) and was the first ruler of the greatest nation the continent had ever known. According to the 17th century Inca chronicler, Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua, when Manco Capac had consolidated his power, "he ordered works to be executed at the place of his birth, consisting of a masonry wall with three windows." The only such wall yet found is in Machu Picchu...