Word: tocapu
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...some of the tocapus meant that the same message was being emphasized. More important, he noticed that several signs, like Chinese pictograms, resembled real objects. That enabled him to pick out the symbols for the supreme Inca deity, Kon Ticsi Viracocha (popularly, Kon-Tiki), who is represented by the tocapu for heat (kon) and two bases of pyramids (ticsi), meaning foundation and earth. By the time Barthel finished, he had translated an entire column of tocapus: "Kon Ticsi Viracocha is the son of the sun, the heat, the teacher of the earth, the priest, the origin of light, the lord...
...decipher several Allied codes during World War II, Barthel made use of an important clue in her material. Many of the Inca vessels bore pictures as well as tocapus. In fact, one common scene portrayed the act of toasting the gods. After studying numerous pieces, Barthel found a matching tocapu that, he believed, recorded the same...
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