"My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone." (Diane Arbus) (Entry 16, Day 6)

Inca Museum (Hiram Bingham/ Machu Picchu) (Hiram Bingham was the guy who made the scientific discovery of Machu Picchu, and several other sites along the Inca Trail. He was also the guy who named the place Machu Picchu, and also named the other sites based on Quechua names (the language, still spoken by Andean people today), since the original names of the sites were lost)

• Incas looked to Milky Way as Cosmic River
• Sun God - Inti - rulers - descendants
• forecasted seasons, ceremonies, etc
• observatories
• Torreon - solar observatory for summer solstice
• Intimachay - solar observatory for winter solstice - marked new year/ celebration of masculine adulthood
• also watched moon - represented queen, Coya
• Pleiades - harvest
• saw pictures in the 'dark clusters,' gaps in sky, interpreted

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• Machu Picchu itself
• country palace/ retreat - royal
• Carried loads on head
• flattened heads as babies
• metallurgy
• animal life - llama family - meat, material, etc - took tools from pelvic bone of llama
• didn't work hard - those skeletons were caretakers
• made metal stuff there
• diet 65% maize

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• spinning tools found - drop spindle - all did it - cotton + bone
• cotton, alpaca, etc
• fault - how they got water
• canal - northern spring
• manchungas - bones - weaving