The lost history of the Incas : the history, legends, myths and culture of the ancient native peoples of the Andes, with over 500 photographs, maps, artworks and fine art images / Dr. David M. Jones.
Introduction : Discovering the Incas and their past -- The Spanish explorations -- Chroniclers and informants -- Languages, drawings and Quipu -- Part One: History -- Timeline: The Incas and their ancestors -- Chapter One: Empire of the sun -- Land of the four quarters -- Cuzco and beyond -- Building an empire -- Civil war -- Conquest of the empire -- Capture and regicide -- Chapter Two: The land -- Peaks and mountain valleys -- Abundant plains : the Altiplano -- Western deserts and coastal valleys -- The Montaña and eastern rainforests -- Land of extremes -- Living within the landscape -- Chapter Three: Sacred landscapes, sacred skies -- Places of worship -- Sacred waters -- Mountains of the gods -- Lines in the desert -- Ceque pathways -- Religion and trade -- Cosmos and galaxy -- Heavenly constellations -- Chapter Four: Early settlers to empire builders -- The first arrivals -- Developing communities -- New agriculture and architecture -- Oracle and shrine: Chavín de Huántar -- Southern cults: Paracas and Pukará -- Nazca confederacy and Moche state -- Mountain empires: Wari and Tiwanaku -- Kingdoms and shrines -- Conquest and empire: the Incas -- Chapter Five: Themes and peoples -- Civic-ceremonial centres -- Communal ritual: Kotosh -- Exchange of goods and ideas -- Conflict and co-operation -- Religious cohesion -- Peoples of the empire -- Chapter Six: Power and warfare -- The Nazca confederacy -- The Moche state -- The empire of Tiwanaku -- The Wari empire --The kingdom of Chimú -- The Inca empire -- Politics of empire -- Social organization -- Part Two: Myth and religion -- Chapter Seven: A pantheon of gods -- Themes and beliefs -- Pachacuti: the endless cycle -- Everything is connected -- Collective thinking -- Transformation -- A united worldview -- Multiple meanings in art -- Hidden ritual and meaning -- Symbols of divinity -- Chapter Eight: Honouring the gods -- Religious conquest -- Animal and supernatural symbolism -- Symbolic meaning -- Ritual symbolism and architecture -- Colours as symbols -- Pilgrimage and oracle sites -- Temples and sunken courts -- Sacred cemeteries -- Ceremonial compounds -- The Pachacamac network -- State religion -- The sacred Coricancha -- Chapter Nine: Tales of the gods -- Sun god and moon goddess -- Felines and serpents -- The staff deity -- Mummification and the oculate being -- The decapitator god -- Con the creator -- The Yaya-Mama religious tradition -- Viracocha: the supreme Andean deity -- Pachacamac the creator -- Inti the sun god -- Chapter Ten: Creation and the first peoples -- Caves, tunnels and islands -- Ages of man -- Tales of heroes -- El Dorado and Chibcha heroes -- Empire of the sun -- Islands of the sun and moon -- Chapter Eleven: Leaving this earth -- The cycle of life and death -- Burial practices -- Elite burials -- Ritual sacrifice -- Mummies and mummification -- Ancestor worship -- Trances and transformation -- Chapter Twelve: A new god -- The meeting of two great faiths -- Sacred locations -- Processions, festivals and rites -- Animism and Coca -- The return of the Incas.
