A God Taken Hostage - Atahualpa vs. Francisco Pizarro. The Incas had never seen horses before, and it wasn't long before the ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

In Inca times this would have been the festival of Illapa, the Inca god of lightning ... its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the New World. Scholars long possessed few ...

a temple devoted to Inti—the god of the sun and one of the highest deities of the Inca pantheon—and ran through the four ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

And it's those city gods, in combination with the gods of the Empire, that would structure time for you. Because it's the city gods and the civic holidays that give you your days off. Five day ...

The whole imperial family came to be seen as gods and was often commemorated with temples and coins. As the Empire expanded, it took control of new countries that had their own cultures and their ...

It was the llama that unified these three disparate Inca worlds, and held this vast empire together. This was a world of different peoples, languages and gods, whose communities had often been at ...

There is evidence it was consumed in cultures located in modern-day Ecuador from as early as the ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire ... deity—and other gods, as part of a ...