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domestic utensils. On tlie linter of one of the
reconstructed doors opening on Loreto street is
a great carved snake in high relief-a symbolical
decoration.
The principal entrance opens upon Pl·aza de
· Armas in front of which there are two circular
tow-ers. In the neighborhood of the small Plaza
de Castillo· there is the ruin of a corner which
was once the end of a small street which gave
access to the large edifice.
Between Maruri
street and
i'ts parailel,
which is the Plaza of Santo Domingo, there are
many ruins formed by smaller stones than those
of the walls heretofore described. Thes,e are the
ruins of buildings, which constituted a pictures–
que quarter of straight narrow stDeets, which
have disappeaood during the moP!erri develop–
ment of Cuzco.
Toward
t
Plaza of Santo Domingo may be
seen fragments of two corners of a street exactly
at th e entrance of CORICANCHA.
Fourth: Inticancha, that is, the wall of th.e
Sun, or, more freely interpreted, a group of buil–
dings for the worship of the Sun. .
F.ifth: Coricancha, or the wall _of gold. In–
ticancha constituted
the group of sanctuaries
dedicated to the worship of the Inca conception
,
ot' the Solar System; it included buildings for the
adoration of the Sun, the Moon, certain stars,
lightning, thunder and the rainbow. The Sun