Word: incas
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...forced fusion of cultures can sometimes produce brilliant offspring. A case in point is colonial Peru. After King Atahualpa was garroted by Francisco Pizarro in 1533, the Spanish conquistadors turned the Inca kingdom into a viceroyalty; some 16 million Indians were enslaved and converted at gunpoint. Indian artisans were appalled by the viceroy's cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred...
...back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...
...game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis of the opinions of many herolings. Where...
...experience as House Master will help him with the administrative work, and the volunteers are about the same age as the tutors in Quincy House. But whatever happens, Bullitt will be looking for new things to discover--and there is, after all, that fabulous lost Inca treasure...
...subjects were 50 Peace Corpsmen, the first Volunteers in the Andes. They operated in communities located in spectacular mountain country at extreme altitudes (some as high as 13,000 feet), inhabited by the Indian descendants of the Inca civilization, interspersed in the larger towns and cities by mestizos, Peruvians of mixed Spanish and Indian blood...