All boys, both, free commoners and nobility, were instructed about weaponry as part of their basic daily education. Until the age of 14, the education of children was in the hands of their parents, but , at the same time, was supervised by the authorities of their districts.
Periodically, they attended their local temples, which tested their spiritual and physical progress. They were lectured about the dividing powers that existed in the universe and how they worked in order to achieve their goals. A different sources of entities were believed to be in control of the heavens. Every celestial movement and phenomenon, such as the rising and setting of the sun, the equinoxes and solstices, moon phases, eclipses and meteors, were said to be manifestations of them. These cosmic movements were therefore regularly noted, and elaborated charts and tables of their occurrences were made, and form these, human affairs and terrestrial events were understood as predictions toward an universal and radical change. The students who excelled in understanding and had the highest level of courage and braveness were separated and trained to become the special force in charge of the land as guardians, and were considered sacred since their position involved spiritual and physical wars.
At the age of 17, young men became full warriors and entered formal military training. The training involved religion, politics, and history, and was in the hands of the priests. To achieve adult status, a young man had to deal with his first war action capturing an enemy and making him a prisoner of war.
They could move up in ranking by capturing enemies. Then according to their achievements they occupied a position in the military world. The power invested in them came from the prisoners unable to exercise it, the more the prisoners the increasing in power to the warrior behind it.
Most weapons used by the warriors (bows, spears, slings) were intended to stun and captured opponents rather than to kill them.
These warriors were placed as leaders and commanders on and off the battlefield. After reaching the highest rank they would be considered sacred and absorbed in the nobility class. This is why a warrior's path was a way to change ones social status.
In the Incan Empire, the Inca's son led the army. As an example, we have the Inca Pachacutec and his son Tupan Inca Yupanqui. He as his father appointed him to be the head of the Inca army. He was trained from birth to become the leader of the army. In a legend passed on about Tupac Inca Yupanqui, he is credited with leading a 10-month-long voyage into the Pacific, with an army of special warriors, to explore the islands he called "Nina Chumpi"(Fire Belt) and "Ava Chumpi"(Outer Belt). He caused an immense number of balsas to be contructed, in which he embarked more than 20,000 chosen men.
The semi-legendary people who are said to have lived in Easter island, many believe that they were ancient migrants from Peru who were the original occupants of the island and the creators of its famous stone monuments.
Thor Heyer-Dahl (October 6, 1914-April 18, 2002) became notable for his Con-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km/5,000 mi across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from Peru to Tuamotus French Polynesia. Con-Tiki was the name of the expedition and it demonstrated that it was possible for a hand made raft constructed from balsa wood to sail the Pacific with relative ease and safety, especially to the West (with the trade winds). The raft proved to be highly maneuverable, and fish was the source of food.
Anthropologists now believe, based on linguistic, physical and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled by a special race that came from Peru. The fact that the Peruvian sweet potato is served as a dietary staple food throughout much of Polynesia prove the ancient contact since the sweet potato is one of the sacred food in the Andes. More recent DNA work found the South American DNA sequences to be far older than the Asian ones. Heyer-Dahl, also with the same analogy, attempted to prove that African- Americans came from Africa directly, judging from their skin and color, and not from England, judging from their speech.
Heyer-Dahl said that when the Europeans first came to the Pacific Islands, they were astonished that they found some of the locals to have relatively light skins and beards. There were whole families that had pale skin, hair varying in color from reddish to blonde.
Their ancestors were the white-bright-skinned right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua (semi-legendary people), when they first came sailing across the sea from a Mountanious High Land in the East which was scorched by the Sun. They colonized the then-uninhabited Polynesian Islands as far North as Hawaii, as far South as New Zealand, as far East as Easter Island, and as far West as Samoa and Tonga.
They were the ones who built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pit-Cairn, the Marquesas, and Easter Island that resembled those in Peru. They also built huge pyramids on Tahiti and Samoa with steps like those in Peru.
Heyer-Dahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 AD for a charcoal fire located in the Pit that was held by the ancient people of Easter Island to have been used as an oven by the "Long Ears," and in the reciting oral tradition, they are identified as a white bright colored race that had ruled the island in the past. When they specified the white color it does not mean the physical color it does mean a radiant white color meaning that they irradiated a kind of white energy.
In the Incan legend there was a Sun-God named Con-Tiki Viracocha who was a supreme head of the mythical-fair skinned people in Peru. The original name for Vira-Cocha was Con-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Con-Tiki was the supreme High Priest of these legendary "Men of Light"who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded bright men being attacked by a warrior chief named Cari, who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However Con-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived to the Pacific Coast. The legend ends with Con-Tiki and his companions disappearing Westward out to open sea.
When the Europeans arrived to Peru, the locals told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of bright lighted color gods who had lived there before. The Incas described these bright lighted color gods as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the North in the "morning of time" and taught the Incas architecture as well as manners and customs. They were brilliant in color and had long beards and were very tall. The Incas also said that the energy radiant gods had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled Westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the incas received from them the spiritual and physical authority over the high lands.
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