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Intihuatana: In one
of the esplanades of the Templo of the three Windows in Machu
Picchu, he finds the Intihuatana, one of the Inca culture's bigger
mysteries. Daily, hundreds of tourists seat (subj) energy that it
stems from this of stone monument - fellowman to a miniature obelisk
- that seems to concentrate the more famous Inca citadel's all
tellurian force.
Perhaps they were tying it up because I was his
father and his God and they were not wanting him to go away; Or,
perhaps, only they were intending to lengthen day and to stretch the
light hours, to work plus hours in the country guttering the fertile
valleys or growing her fruits mamapacha.
Intihuatana or tying up in the sunlight, they tell the Andean men
from Abancay ( the land of the God than speech ) to the Huascarán's
summits ( the snow-covered higher of the Perú ) to the telling this
old legend happened in times prehispánicos, when the Andean world
was dominated for the Inca.
In those times, the Sol was the
incario's principal deity.
Was assuming it the growth of the cultivations and era the
father of Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, the empire's founding fathers,
for that reason they raised numerous temples and sanctuaries stop to
adore it.
Still today, the Intihuatana's legend reminds in lands
cordilleranas itself. Tell it groups of ten, hundred, perhaps all
the races's thousands of men and indigenous nations, that they
describe strange monoliths that were serving of stakes in order to
the star.
One of these stakes Is believed
that, she is localized in the esplanade of the Templo of Machu
Picchu's three Windows, the colossal Inca citadel once was protected
for the Inti or Sol, the Almighty God than - year that the North
American Hiram Bingham arrived in - he contrived to 1911 to avoid
the stepped on intruders of Occident's men.
Intihuatana is this peculiar
obelisk's name. ¿is he only a coincidence?, ¿An innocent homonymy?
or¿One of the places where the Incas were intending to tie up in the
sunlight, does have to do with just as the men consider it of the
walk (subj), to the telling old legend?
Beyond the speculations, the certain he is than the monolith it
brings about the admiration of the tourists that travel the
archeological complex more once was visited of the Perú. They lay
down his hands or they lean his front in the subversive element
sculpture, feeling a strange energy, one inexplicable he forces that
it emerges out of every one of his four edges.
Where it irradiates the
inexplicable: The Intihuatana is close-fitting
in a granite mass. He has prism form and his four vértices indicate
cardinal points. The obelisk occupies a total 8- meters area with 60
centimeters and it is localized in a child once was leveled, to the
side of the temple of the three Windows, a Inca Machu Picchu's
citadel observatory.
A questions accumulation they
surround to the stranger sculpture. His origin and his purpose still
cutleries for story's mysterious veil, although some researchers
maintain that he was a portable retable are where himself he was
tying up in the sunlight, in order that never stop to shine,
because, if his light was becoming extinguished, life would end up
in heights itself. Serialize his children's ending.
Also there are who rumor has it
that the Intihuatana was a sundial. The time and the year's seasons
was calculating itself according to the cast shadows for the sun, to
the resting on the granite sculpture his rays.
Other ones see in him the
beings's sign spatial, the extraterrestrial footprint than, once in
a while, they deign to tour the land. In short, unknown quantities
that add a mystery halo themselves.
There are no without appeal
answers. The one and only certainty he is than energy flows freely
in the Intihuatana, wrapping up all of the visitors, who, for simple
curiosity or in search of spiritual renewal, the 78 steps of stair
go up of stone tilled that they lead to the stake, where the Sol's
Children were intending to tie to his father and to his God. Thus,
never would stop shining in his lavish empire.
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