THE CEREMONIAL AND OFFERING TABLE OF THE INKAS

MACHU PICCHU, the spiritual CENTER capable of filling the SPIRITS of all who humbly surrender
to the magnificent and perfect work of CREATION. This virtue of respect is evident from the very moment we arrive at this CITY. Arriving at the SACRED CITY along the INKA TRAIL allows us to enter through its upper section where various TERRACES are found, and ABOVE them a STRUCTURE similar to A HOUSE; since it HAS ONLY THREE WALLS it received the name
"HUAYRANA," and because of its location it served, among other functions, as an observation site,
point of control, and place of meeting and rest.
NEXT to this construction EXISTS a CEREMONIAL TABLE known as a PLACE OF PERSONAL
and COMMUNITY OFFERINGS. This STRUCTURE 's CEREMONIAL ROCK also HAS ASTRONOMICAL FUNCTIONS. To decode it we need to be closely tied to ANDEAN ABSTRACT SYMBOLISM and ART. Pursuing exact calculations of the LIGHT' s PORTAL and the SHADOW in search of concrete conclusions is like reading a book  in the dark under the instantaneous
illumination of a match. Without the help or contrast of other perspectives and intuitive ingredients, the
interpretation of all of these places would be merely an imaginary metaphor.
In 1974, many excavations were realized in the area around THE CEREMONIAL ROCK or TABLE;
the results coincided with the fact that neither THE ROCK nor its immediate surroundings served as a cemetery, but rather a DEFINITE PLACE OF OFFERINGS.
Up to this point, all is well, but complexities arise when academic science treats as a reliable reference the inexact information assembled by spanish chronicles who documented A HISTORY OF A CIVILIZATION they never understood and perhaps never will understand - THE ANDEAN SOCIETY -