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CUZCO: THE HISTORICAL - AND
CITY OF PERU
as H'atun Rumiyocc (wiith its large boulder) there can be seen a
patent pwoi of this superposition oif constTUction Oif distinct
periods. One ~tone wall, 1badly dressed an•d almost w:ithout polish,
on being torn down revealed •clearly a grarnite wall of squared
stone a,d'mirabiy joiued an d finely poiiished, alomost to the sama
perfection as the walls of the Templo del Sol This means that a
later oonstruction of l'OUJgh stone and mud plaster was· made- to
cover a beautiful strebch of wall of ifinely finish ed granite.
The existeBce of a Pre-Incaic period rs therefore plainly evident,
To ·de11y wou1d be to elose th-e eyes to so mUJch evid·ence sue.h for
instaince as the archreolo,gy already described. It was certainly
a period during which they had an ideographical knowled•g-e of
writii11g, ws walls and monoliths have b een di:scovered with
irnscriptions urudeciphere d up to tJhi-s day. The aystem of the
Kjipus wa,s nothing more tl¡.an a degene1'18,te form, and simple
at that.
' To ' p oni•ly di¡ltinguish betw11en '.P ·e-Incaic an~ Incaic COll·
stru~tions i düfiiculrt ¡:nat:ter, consiidering th~ contiecture and
the hypoithesi'S.
Incaic Period.: A•bout fhe year 1040 a.'Ccord~n·g to sorne,
the yea:r 1100 ae ording to oth ers, ·gnali;r,es the period Oif
foundaition o Cuzco a pita] of the Empire -and, therefore, the
Caipital of the same Empire.
MaI1Jco Kcciápaec and Mama OccUo, t h mythica1 h eroes attri–
bu.ted to the lineruge of t11e Iucas, have no kn own ol'igin.
They left Lake Titieaca, sen.t by their father the · Sun, ac·
cording fo chilld·h·oo , to .present the fresh-water fish or s~all
bar c>f gold in the !acu•ari •moumtain with the understmndmg
thait it is tibe wi•sh r :F'wther to found t:JJ.e e.ity on the swered
plain eX'tewdi:ing under itheir feet, 15 kilometers from the hills.
' 'Dhe ather trrudition rtaken froon Hermanos Ayar 11as a m-01·e
sj"mbc>lic·aJ meaning and tends to lea.d to a mor e logiical interpre–
tation. In a part of Paccarico Tampu (inn) six leagues d'iatant
f.rom Cuzco there is a mountain calle MPU-TTOCCO (Deep
·hoJ e) with three gaps : from out of one the people of Maras;
·from the aecond the tribe ·Of t·he Ta and from the third
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