Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Incan Echoes and Cusco Enigmas
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- 1. Massive cyclopean fortress puzzling archaeologists with its perfect stone fitting
- 2. Quechua transliteration often linked to goldsmiths or sanctuaries in Cusco
- 3. Quechua word for ritual drinking vessel, essential in Andean rites
- 4. Ritual stone believed to tether the sun, a solar clock of the Incas
- 5. Temple once gilded, dedicated to the solar deity Inti
- 9. Original Quechua name for Cusco, meaning 'navel' or 'center'
- 12. PICCHU Mountain overlooking Machu Picchu, its name meaning 'young peak'
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- 6. Archaeological site thought to be a ceremonial water temple
- 7. Incan geometric motifs often encoded social status and identity on textiles
- 8. Steps or terraces sculpted into the Andean landscape for agriculture
- 10. High-altitude town near Cusco known for traditional weaving and Inca terraces
- 11. Andean earth mother deity worshiped in Cusco rituals
- 13. Sacred object or place imbued with spiritual energy in Andean cosmology
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