Power lies in the depths of the earth, inside things.
In Tahuantinsuyu, the siesta holds a secret, a sacred silence…
Like almost all major civilizations, the Incas believed in a mythical origin, one born out in many legends and stories.
One of them says that in the land of the four quadrants, in what is called Tahuantin-Suyu in Quechua, the last Inca loaded his treasure on the backs of twenty thousand sacred llamas and sent them to the most hidden places in his empire.
And forty of them arrived to the highest peaks of the Andes, the Suyu del sur. They left their precious load to be buried deep in the earth, an offering in exchange for protection.
Even into the present, no one has been able to retrace their steps and find the place where that treasure is hidden. What we do know is that generation after generation workers grow grapevines in the shade of the Andes, with the blessing of the Inca treasure.
Llama:
…the only known beast of burden from the Andes and symbol of pre-Hispanic Incan culture.
