Word: incan
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There was no doubt in Hiram Bingham's mind that he had stumbled onto something mystical in the summer of 1911, when he discovered the dazzling Incan settlement now known as Machu Picchu. He was convinced that the remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace and final stronghold of the Incas, where virgins sought sanctuary and priests worshipped the sun god. The charismatic Bingham--a Yale University archaeologist, later a Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator and much later a model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones--announced, in a series of magazine articles and best-selling...
...major aspect of Sulca’s response to modern violence is the revival and vindication of culture. Sulca seems to be in constant dialogue with Inca and Aymara weaving traditions, which date back at least 1,000 years. He works in punto arwi, an Incan weaving technique revived by his grandfather Ambrosio in the 1920s and only uses hand-spun wool and native Andean dyes. With this technique, Sulca weaves together modern and ancient symbols. Some are easy to decipher: notes on a staff to represent music, for instance, and an easel signifies art in “Gracias...
...material to work with. Shakur was a prolific artist who in life released four albums, made six films and wrote more than 100 poems. He also left behind hours of unreleased tapes. Using earnings from his earlier albums, Afeni created a new record label--Amaru (Tupac Amaru is an Incan name meaning Shining Serpent)--endowed a foundation and opened a performing-arts camp in Stone Mountain, Ga., like the one her son attended as a child. "The arts saved Tupac," says Afeni...
Where the Dons come from, mountains are deities. When last week's Millennium World Peace Summit, the grand religious confab affiliated with both the U.N. and Ted Turner, sought South America's purest practitioners of Incan and pre-Incan pantheism for its environmental panel, it turned to the Q'ero nation. The Q'ero, who live at an altitude of 15,000 ft. in several villages south of Cuzco, were amenable. They had had a prophetic vision about traveling to a far land to discuss the world's growing disharmony: pollution in the clouds that wreath their peaks, bizarrely early...
...would. But could any ritual prepare the six shamans--so removed from modernity that Don Nicolas can read the Incan code of knotted cords but speaks no Spanish--for the big city? The Dons call the DC-10 that brought them a "big bird." They don't know how to open a Coke can. As the van enters the Lincoln Tunnel, one of them remarks, "This is the Uccu Pacha"--the Underworld. What will they make of Times Square? Or of the Waldorf-Astoria, where the summit is based...