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 HISTORY OF CUSCO
The origins of Cusco are lost in the dark night of pre-history.
Archaeological excavations reveal that a primitive population
already lived in the area around 3 thousand years ago.There are many
legends about the origin of the Twantinsuyo (the Inca). One of them
tells how, Manco Cápac and his sister and wife Mama Ocllo, half gods
and children of the Inti father (the god of the sun), emerged from
the waters of Lake Titicaca with the mission to found a new Kingdom
that would improve the conditions of life in the townsLegend holds
that Manko Qhapaq and the tribe that accompanied him, received a
divine mandate when they left the sacred lake Titikaka to look for
the promised land where there, the gold staff given to him by his
father the Sun, would sink in the ground as a sign of fertility. The
followers of Manko were somehow descendent tribes of a great
civilization, The Tiahuanaku, who had achieved great advances in
astronomy, agriculture, architecture, and had inhabited the
surrounding areas of lake Titikaka. They were superior villages that
had a civilizing mission, and who were also carrying an ancient
Religious tradition based on the principles of AYNI, that is, the
capacity to share.The tribes that occupied the Cusco valley, and who
made their pakarina (mythical place of sacred origin) on the hill,
Huanakauri - the place where the gold staff given by the Sun had
sunk - lived for many years in a process of convocations, calling on
the villages, sharing their culture, teaching their
traditions.However, due to its great cultural and historical
significance, Cusco received innumerable demonstrations of worldwide
acknowledgement, as from 1978 during the 7th Convention of Majors
from Great Worldwide Cities, carried out in Milan, Italy, where
Cusco was declared as the "Cultural Heritage of the World". In 1983,
UNESCO granted it the title of "Cultural Heritage of the Humanity". |
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