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Pisaq
The ruins of Pisaq - visually
stunning - are strategically located on a mountain that overlooks the holy
valley of the Inca.
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After a
20 minute (I remember it exactly, because of the altitude you feel every step!) hike one reaches the
main ruins of the Pisaq fortress. |
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The
walls are built in tyical Inca style. Every stone is perfeclty fitted into the
next.
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But just
like in any of the Inca sites I visited the "heart" of the structures
are megalithic. Solid granit rock was cut like butter with a knife. Please
check out the next images to see what I mean.
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Like so
many other ancient sites Pisaq is laid out astronomically. And like so often
the explanation is that the Inca aligned their structures astronomically
because the needed a calendar to determine when to sow and harvest...
I don't get it! Every farmer will tell you that you sow when the temperature is
ok and you harvest when the crop is ripe. Furthermore the Inca - and all the
ancient people with them - were much closer to nature as we are nowadays. I
don't think they needed a calendar to tell what time of the year it was.
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