The physical origin of the universe was not important for the Incas and rather they were more in pursuit of the understanding the language of its magnetic behavior and acquire knowledge in order to survive in a challenging geography pertaining to the Andean landscape.
When the magnetic lines of force were identified in their natural locations, they believed that its physical presence was in direct contact with its cosmic force, one of them created the physical existence and the other animated it. If one of them was perturbed, the observed that the gas element tended to slide down along the field into the low places along it. This caused to burden the low places sinking further and unburdened the high places permitting them to expand upward. The magnetic field of the earth and the cosmic rays from the universe contributed about equally to the areas of fertility located in the high places the mountains and then from it to the low regions. Thus, they concluded that the birth of the stars were intimately related to the cosmic magnetic field and the power of solar radiation and in a combined and complementary order influenced the energy forces of the earth.
The regions populated by the pre-Inca and Inca civilizations were very knowledgeable in observe how this points of energy moved along the regions. They commonly located them in nearly all the regions of their land outside the deepest parts of the Amazon basin. They can be found in almost every district in downtown of Lima of today, having the city been built around them. The lines were laid out to express the cosmological language of the stars and the lines of energy were aligned to various stellar risings and settings. The seasonal ceremonies were huge events because it pertained to a cosmological calendar that kept the exact time for every season and a also a record keeping.
The Sun was considered the most important source of energy for life on the earth. The Sun's movement was closely observed and mapped, and its orbit was elliptical in nature at the center of the Milky Way.
The Coastal Region of the Andean land was and still is unique. Over 50 rivers flow to the Pacific from the Western Andean Cordillera, that transect dry desert environments and then form linear oasis. The rainfall in the Andes was sacred and markedly seasonal, occurring in the summer from about November to April at the higher elevations and East of the Andes, but only very rarely on the Pacific littoral. The many circumscribed coastal valleys were and still are surrounded by barren desert, the cold Pacific Ocean and the towering Andes. For the People of the Andes, this landscape was and still is a challenge to life in extreme circumstances.
Now with scientific research we know many things about the sun such as about 3/4 of the sun's mass consists of hydrogen, the rest is mostly helium, with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron. Then that the sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane 2,7 times per orbit and its passage through the higher density spiral arms often coincides with mass extinctions on Earth. Also that the Solar System takes about 225-250 million years to complete one orbit through the Milky Way naming it a Galactic Year. Now it is also thought that during the lifetime of the Sun it has 20-25 orbits around it. Then that the Milky Way moves, with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation, in the direction of the constellation Hydra and the Sun's resulting speed with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation is about 370 km/s in the direction of Leo Constellation.
The observation of the organizational forces in motion in the universe and the phenomena in the sky and earth gave to the ancient People of the Andes the understanding of the concept of the dualistic forces that needed to be in harmony in order to continue the cycle of life. How to use it and what role each one played in their way of life was a challenge to them to discover and apply in their every day life and leave us a lesson that prove that respect for Nature and the Creator of it assure the continuity of life in our planet and the certainty that they developed a superb degree of understanding also proved by the fact that they did not use the writing skills as a tool of learning or keeping records instead it was a matter of understanding the spiritual laws through the mental and physical skills.
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