THE INCAS AND THEIR PROFOUND SPIRITUALITY.

The Incas of Peru are one of the most admired of ancient civilizations. An amalgamation of Cultures that left no written records, undertook one of the most rapid religious, cultural and territorial expansions ever seen in about two centuries.
Their culture became extinct due to their Civil War and at the same time the cruelest episode of Spanish colonial history. They arrived in 1532, captured the Inca leader Atahualpa with the help of the ones loyal to Huascar, his brother, whom he assassinated, and executed him a year later. The Spanish goal was to obtain the land without regard of the Spiritual Principles that the Incas had. After fighting a number of Battles bravely during the following 40 years, including the one in which Pizarro was killed in 1541, their last leader Tupac Amaru II was executed in 1572, and the 16 million of inhabitants were effectively decimated by sickness (smallpox) and gold and silver mine work (starvation) done at 3000 to 5000 metres above sea level.
Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, at 3330 m above sea level, retains still a remarkable tranquility. It welcomes now hundreds of tourists each day and it certainly test the cardiovascular health of the human body. Although the problem of uneven wealth distribution is a disease that the Spaniards left throughout the country, local people continue with their customs as if the spirit of the Incas continue in them.
Machu Picchu was hidden to the World until 1911. Its "discovery" by Hiram Bingham is just a good story. He came from a family of Public Service tradition. Both parents were "missionaries." Bingham was a Yale graduate and History lecturer at the university. He travelled to Peru in 1909 with the aim of studying "Simon Bolivar's independence struggle." When he arrived to Cuzco, he became fascinated by the Inca architecture. Immediately he returned to Yale and asked for funds to form an expedition to study all the Mountains Routes that the Incas had. The expedition arrived to Peru 2 years later. He took the narrow llama trail down to the Ur-Ubamba Gorge. A friendship with the local people during the time he spent there led him to the Jungle-covered ruins covered in a hazy spiraling mist. The ruins were not inhabited for much more than a century before the Empire fell. What was the exact purpose of the summit city is uncertain and at the same time part of its mystique.
The 5 main areas of the city are related to main points of energy of the human body.
The Sacristy is an area used to communicate with people and the North Stone is a compass that mark the path of the stars, therefore oracles were received and then were communicated to the trained ones in charge of those types of energies. It function like a human throat.
The Temple of the 3 Windows was used as a receptor of cosmic energies and healing purposes. It function like the solar plexus in the human body.
The stones in the area were used as chairs so people were able to sit on them, and like a clock at each hour, certain frequencies related to specific energies were received and helped the ones in need of them. There were different type of Priests to cover the different days. This was the city's gut.
The Puma being the base of the city and related to the base of all energies, was the city's spiritual heart.
Fires were burnt and vine leaves were left to give more heat to the energies that worked in the heart.
The Palace of the Princesses supplied a very strong energy able enough to protect the city from the malignant forces of the different realms. Like a firefighter this was the sacral part of the city.
The Inti-Huatana (Sun-Tier) from where the Priests and Chosen Ones addressed the rest of the people in the square below. The large stone was placed strategically there to connect to Mother Earth's energies and channel them onto the stone. The rock face had deep caverns of crystals that enhanced the energy, and when the Priests or the Chosen Ones touched the stone and stood on it they would spread their hands out to enrich the soil, mother earth and the people. This functioned like a crown.