Cuzco City Peru
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Koricancha Sun Temple Cuzco Peru means the "Golden Field" it is the most outstanding Inca stonemasonry work but mostly the stones were covered with pure gold plates, also were there an abundant number of statues and altars made of solid gold, the principal object of reverence was a colossal golden disk representing their sun divinity, it was placed in a form that reflected the sun rays during the Solstice event.
The astronomy was very close related to their religion, for such reason the Koricancha temple also was also an astronomical observatory.
During the colonial period the Santo Domingo church was built over the sun temple and the rest of the complex also was modified as a convent.
Sacsahuaman or Sacsayhuaman was Cuzco's imperial (last Inca period) fortress its construction is credited to Inca Pachacutec.
It is a Quechua word composed by two words probably saksay that means satisfaction and huaman in English is hawk or falcon.
Originally Cuzco city had a perimeter shape that resembles a lion with Sacsahuaman as the figure's head, very estrange because the ruling city had these two characteristics Feline and Hawk, like the Egyptian Sphinx that represented a Lion but ist name was written with a Hawk. The Egyptian god Horus had these two characteristics his spirit gave the pharaoh the pharaoh the power to rule as Cuzco gave the Inca the power rule.
Cuzco was the capital city of the Inca kingdom or Tawantinsuyo (1200 AC – 1450 AC) also was the Incas (rulers) necropolis.
Incas considered Cuzco a sacred city only privileged people were allowed to enter this city was the palace were Inca rulers built their earthly palace to use as long as thy lived and after they departed to the land of the gods this palace became its mortuary temple and was kept with a staff of clergy and servants that took care of the Inca's mommy, sacrifices and certain religious and governmental contacts that the family clan represented.
At these palaces were celebrated commemorative rituals and reunions with family members and influential persons related to the administrative body of the diseased Inca ruling period, this places maintained state and fortunes and played an important influential roll in politic and in the economic world almost as if the Inca was alive.
Eventually during the colonial period and Cuzco lost is reverence these palaces became also residence of governmental and clerical institutions and their officials and now a days is a place of multiple commercial stores and restaurants.
During the colonial period after the Spanish conquest brought with it great cultural and religious changes, with the new religion the proliferation of churches, shrines and arts and crafts objects related to new believe grew mostly representing the life of Christ.
This period was very prosperous to the arts mixing the American with the European techniques and characteristics, they fusion together to become a singular art with its own trends that burst in to innumerable exponents of religious themes using different type of materials.
It is a Quechua word composed by two words probably saksay that means satisfaction and huaman in English is hawk or falcon.
Originally Cuzco city had a perimeter shape that resembles a lion with Sacsahuaman as the figure's head, very estrange because the ruling city had these two characteristics Feline and Hawk, like the Egyptian Sphinx that represented a Lion but ist name was written with a Hawk. The Egyptian god Horus had these two characteristics his spirit gave the pharaoh the pharaoh the power to rule as Cuzco gave the Inca the power rule.
Cuzco was the capital city of the Inca kingdom or Tawantinsuyo (1200 AC – 1450 AC) also was the Incas (rulers) necropolis.
Incas considered Cuzco a sacred city only privileged people were allowed to enter this city was the palace were Inca rulers built their earthly palace to use as long as thy lived and after they departed to the land of the gods this palace became its mortuary temple and was kept with a staff of clergy and servants that took care of the Inca's mommy, sacrifices and certain religious and governmental contacts that the family clan represented.
At these palaces were celebrated commemorative rituals and reunions with family members and influential persons related to the administrative body of the diseased Inca ruling period, this places maintained state and fortunes and played an important influential roll in politic and in the economic world almost as if the Inca was alive.
Eventually during the colonial period and Cuzco lost is reverence these palaces became also residence of governmental and clerical institutions and their officials and now a days is a place of multiple commercial stores and restaurants.
During the colonial period after the Spanish conquest brought with it great cultural and religious changes, with the new religion the proliferation of churches, shrines and arts and crafts objects related to new believe grew mostly representing the life of Christ.
This period was very prosperous to the arts mixing the American with the European techniques and characteristics, they fusion together to become a singular art with its own trends that burst in to innumerable exponents of religious themes using different type of materials.
