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cuzco:
THE
HISTORICAL
AND
MONUMENTAL
CITY OF
P.ERU
inclosure); afil.d Pauccar-MaTca (precious inc1osure). The western
part of the f.ort ha'S disappeared, its material havinrg b een used in
the construction of temples and Colonial houses.•
The Throne of the Inca: -- Fronting the nmth walls and
surroun·ded by many huge bo'll!lders, sorne of which are finely
decorated will be found the Throne of the Inca, commonly kuown
as KkusillU(,C H 'inkkinan
(meaning
leaiping-off place of the
monkey) on account of the h.igh stoops descending at eaich side.
Owing in part to the :fine tracing,s in the live stone
iit
was ev:i,dently
the seat of the Inca and his Court to view the fiestas held in the
esplanaide alr.eady mentioned.
In any case it must have been a
place of worship. Higher u
from tl,lese decoraited bouJders will be
seen otl;iers, of volcani
@ri~[n
on jwJ:üch are the marks of glaciers.
This part i<s known as El Rodad rq
(ii1
quechua Su una) .
It
is
a place of public ·:imu e-men
and foir chrild,ren.
Idols. -
Ilf all places in the
icinity of the Rodadero wil1 bll
found bouiders decorate.d
in va1•ious
forms, sorne representing
altars, others seats 1and benches; a number will be seen next to
wells representing piscinas, ecc-lesiasticrully. Many of the peculiar
marks, which some believe to be artificial, are due to the effects
of the atmo·sphere.
There are severa! groll!ps of these rocks between which a;re
subterranean passages :¡,n·d •hidden cllia.mibers which look like the
plooes
f.ororacles or other superstitious practices. Among these
places of idolatry is one iprincipal rock.
It
is
about four hundred
meters from the Rodadero to the ruorth; high, ga:aduated and with
fl11sures, on the norihern side of which are th1,ee seats -
one larga
in the center and the other two smaller, at the foot of which are
i,i¡,d,
i.ca~~m~
Qf
a,
w~l,l.
On the eastern side of füe rock is
th.~
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