INCA BELIEFS YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE INCA EMPIRE
The Inca were forever looking skywards. Indeed, cosmology was the guiding framework for the way they understood the workings of the world down on the land. Not only did the name of the empire's capital, Cuzco, mean ‘navel of the earth’, but the success or otherwise of Inca agriculture, and thus the empire's survival, was firmly associated with the movements of the planets.
The most fundamental recipient of Inca worship was the Sun. The most revered deity in the pantheon was Inti, the Sun god, with temples built across the empire for worshippers to gather and make offerings to him. In Cuzco, white llamas would be publicly sacrificed and gifted to
