Word: incan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor has traveled extensively in South America, and has paid not one but two visits to the ancient Incan site of Machu Picchu in Peru. "I tell my friends," he laughs, "that I've made the hajj twice." He has also carefully observed the literary landscape, looking for new writers to translate. "It is easier to get published down there than it is in the U.S.," he says, "but harder to make money at it. There are many little magazines, and they are widely read. It's as if the Kenyon Review had The New Yorker's circulation...
Karl's spirit guides had been advising her to go to the Incan empire's sacred Lake Titicaca in Bolivia (the Andes seem to be a favorite way station for UFOs). "They sort of told us we would meet them," she says. "I won't believe it until I see them and talk to them and feel the panel on the spaceship. But maybe it is time for people to know they have help." And so, starry-eyed and full of hope, Karl headed southward, and she did catch a distant glimpse of what she took to be a spaceship...
...poor. "It will raise their self-confidence and their consciousness of their own problems," he said. "The people have lived these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed...
...that he had recently led an expedition on that grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
...Pajaten, which Lennon describes as "unique" and "totally distinct from the Incas'." He and others suspect that the people were dominated by the more powerful Incas some 500 years ago and then disappeared in the collapse of the empire in 1533, soon after the Spanish conquistadors arrived. Why the Incan culture declined so quickly remains unknown; many authorities blame European-borne diseases like smallpox, against which the natives had no defenses...