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Sillustani written also as Silustani Puno Peru is a Colla civilization necropolis these people used Chullpas or Chulpas, they area hollow tubular towers made of stone bricks cut and polished with exalted craftsmanship for funerary purposes. These funerary monumental towers with a height over 12 meters (39 ft), some have circular and other angular body construction shape like decorative columns but both have like a ring before the top as an imaginary duct around.
One of the outmost chullpa for its height and volume has a small lizard carved in relieve as a decorative symbol.
Sillustani is an island of trapezoidal shape in the middle of Umayo Lake built by the Collas (1200 AC - 1400 AC) a local culture that flourished in Lake Titicaca area or Collao Plateau.
After the collapse of the Thiahuanaco (200 AC - 1200 AC) civilization the region was divided in small Aymara kingdoms including the Uros who escaped from the Incas living in Lake Titicaca 3,826 m (12,549 feet) in artificial islands made of reeds; some of them rested there up to this days.
Sillustani stands at 4,000 Meters over sea level (13,123 ft) is around 33 kilometers (21 Miles) from modem Puno a city of great importance during the colonial Period, The chullpa’s small rectangular entrance was built facing the East like many temples in ancient Peru and their mummified body was placed in the interior together with their family believing in rebirth in the afterlife.
This place was also called Ayawasi that in Quechua (Incas Language) means “The House of the Dead” a similar concept than the Mastabas in Egypt.
Around Puno there are many places where Chullpas still stand in different states of conservation and accessibility. Some were also built by Thiahuanaco in central mountains of Peru but mostly of this type of constructions was done during the Colla dominion, it was the burial place of the distinguished families of the kingdom until the Incas conquered this region during Inca Pachacutec Reign and called this Region Collasuyo on of the four regions the Inca Empire was divided.
Incas moved the population main body to other places to avoid uprisings.
Amaru Muro is in Hayu Marca mountain about the same distance from Puno than Sillustani but in opposite direction. A special road with multiple steps passes through two quadrangular stone just before arriving to this ceremonial place, it resemble an immense niche of 7 by 7 meters with a small entrance at the center bottom facing east.
Amaru Muro false door looks like a an hypothetic door to the land of the gods a point of communication with the afterlife, a similar function as the niches or false doors found in or outside the Egyptian mastabas and temples.
One of the outmost chullpa for its height and volume has a small lizard carved in relieve as a decorative symbol.
Sillustani is an island of trapezoidal shape in the middle of Umayo Lake built by the Collas (1200 AC - 1400 AC) a local culture that flourished in Lake Titicaca area or Collao Plateau.
After the collapse of the Thiahuanaco (200 AC - 1200 AC) civilization the region was divided in small Aymara kingdoms including the Uros who escaped from the Incas living in Lake Titicaca 3,826 m (12,549 feet) in artificial islands made of reeds; some of them rested there up to this days.
Sillustani stands at 4,000 Meters over sea level (13,123 ft) is around 33 kilometers (21 Miles) from modem Puno a city of great importance during the colonial Period, The chullpa’s small rectangular entrance was built facing the East like many temples in ancient Peru and their mummified body was placed in the interior together with their family believing in rebirth in the afterlife.
This place was also called Ayawasi that in Quechua (Incas Language) means “The House of the Dead” a similar concept than the Mastabas in Egypt.
Around Puno there are many places where Chullpas still stand in different states of conservation and accessibility. Some were also built by Thiahuanaco in central mountains of Peru but mostly of this type of constructions was done during the Colla dominion, it was the burial place of the distinguished families of the kingdom until the Incas conquered this region during Inca Pachacutec Reign and called this Region Collasuyo on of the four regions the Inca Empire was divided.
Incas moved the population main body to other places to avoid uprisings.
Amaru Muro is in Hayu Marca mountain about the same distance from Puno than Sillustani but in opposite direction. A special road with multiple steps passes through two quadrangular stone just before arriving to this ceremonial place, it resemble an immense niche of 7 by 7 meters with a small entrance at the center bottom facing east.
Amaru Muro false door looks like a an hypothetic door to the land of the gods a point of communication with the afterlife, a similar function as the niches or false doors found in or outside the Egyptian mastabas and temples.
