GOVERNMENT OF THE INCA EMPIRE

The Tahuantinsuyu (lit. "Four Parts Together") ("Land of the Four Quarters") or Incan Empire was a centralized force or ruling party. The most important events considered as a vital part of the everyday life were their religious and ritual practices that were understood, articulated and elaborated through the Andean Cosmology and powerful thought.
It drew upon the ritualistic forms and practices of previous Andean civilizations and certain aspects of these rituals and practices are still done by the families that are direct descendants of the priests in charge of these important ceremonies.
Incan ideology was based on the cosmological behavior of the galaxies, planets and stars. The Andean cosmology was hierarchical and dualistic, with a variety of opposing forces jostling in position through ongoing action.
The world was viewed as an animistic one. They believed that the world started as a kind of phantom one with everything moving without a corporeal body.
Their concept about the life force was clear and simple. To their beliefs, everything was connected with it. Change was understood as occurring asymmetries in power between those life forces, while an equilibrium or balance, was struck in such a way through reciprocity, a process of reciprocal exchange.
To them, the understanding of these laws of nature was very important. To acquire the knowledge of how these energies moved around required an intense training involving the cleansing of the environment from negative energies and enhancing the power of the individual in charge, in order to determine the path in which these energy sources moved around.
The real conditions of existence was the primary thought that these people projected from the inside out. The belief of the relation from the cosmos to the real conditions of existence was the foundation of life in this planet. It was a set of conscious and unconscious ideas working together which made up the empire's goals, expectations, and motivations. It produced a set of standards that were followed unanimously by the people, government and conquered groups as a way of looking at things.
The understanding of the origin, evolution and eventual fate of the universe was the primary objective knowledge that was transmitted and passed on through religious beliefs based on careful examination of the universal laws governing the cosmos. Observation and experimentation were the basic ingredients that shaped the unanimously understanding of the meaning of life and the position of the individual in relation to the universe.