Imagina despertar en el Cusco del año 1500. El Imperio más grande que América haya conocido late a tu alrededor: 100.000 habitantes, piedras ensambladas sin mortero que resisten terremotos, un sistema de caminos de 30.000 kilómetros, quipus que codifican información sin escritura, y un contrato sagrado cotidiano con el Sol para que vuelva a salir cada mañana.
En este video reconstruimos con inteligencia artificial cómo era un día completo en la vida de una familia noble inca en el Cusco imperial, 32 años antes de la llegada de los conquistadores españoles.
🏛 LO QUE VAS A DESCUBRIR:
▶️ Cómo estaba diseñada la ciudad del Cusco en forma de puma
▶️ Qué comían, cómo se vestían y cómo se bañaban los nobles incas
▶️ El secreto del chuño — la papa deshidratada que dura 10 años
▶️ Cómo funcionaban los quipus como sistema de información
▶️ Por qué la chicha se fabricaba masticando maíz
▶️ El sistema de acueductos y drenaje más avanzado de América
▶️ La arquitectura antisísmica de las piedras sin mortero
▶️ La vida nocturna y la tradición oral del haravicu
▶️ El jardín de oro del Coricancha que los españoles fundirían en lingotes
🤖 RECONSTRUIDO CON IA a partir de crónicas coloniales tempranas, investigaciones arqueológicas y los trabajos de John Rowe, R. Tom Zuidema y Brian Bauer.
📚 FUENTES HISTÓRICAS: — Crónicas de Pedro Cieza de León, Juan de Betanzos y Guamán Poma de Ayala — Investigaciones arqueológicas del sitio histórico del Cusco — Brian Bauer, The Ancient Incas (2004) — R. Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cusco (1990)
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En este video reconstruimos con inteligencia artificial cómo era un día completo en la vida de una familia noble inca en el Cusco imperial, 32 años antes de la llegada de los conquistadores españoles.
🏛 LO QUE VAS A DESCUBRIR:
▶️ Cómo estaba diseñada la ciudad del Cusco en forma de puma
▶️ Qué comían, cómo se vestían y cómo se bañaban los nobles incas
▶️ El secreto del chuño — la papa deshidratada que dura 10 años
▶️ Cómo funcionaban los quipus como sistema de información
▶️ Por qué la chicha se fabricaba masticando maíz
▶️ El sistema de acueductos y drenaje más avanzado de América
▶️ La arquitectura antisísmica de las piedras sin mortero
▶️ La vida nocturna y la tradición oral del haravicu
▶️ El jardín de oro del Coricancha que los españoles fundirían en lingotes
🤖 RECONSTRUIDO CON IA a partir de crónicas coloniales tempranas, investigaciones arqueológicas y los trabajos de John Rowe, R. Tom Zuidema y Brian Bauer.
📚 FUENTES HISTÓRICAS: — Crónicas de Pedro Cieza de León, Juan de Betanzos y Guamán Poma de Ayala — Investigaciones arqueológicas del sitio histórico del Cusco — Brian Bauer, The Ancient Incas (2004) — R. Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cusco (1990)
🔔 Suscríbete al canal para no perderte las próximas reconstrucciones:
▶️ La Bagdad del año 900 d.C. durante la Edad de Oro del Islam
▶️ La Tenochtitlán azteca en el año 1450
▶️ Un castillo vikingo en Noruega en el año 950
▶️ La Constantinopla bizantina en el año 1000
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00:00Imagine waking up before dawn. There are no clocks, but your body knows.
00:05The cold changes texture when there are two hours left before the sun appears over the mountains.
00:11We are in Cusco, in the year 1500 of the Common Era, and the world around you is the
00:18pulsating heart of Caguantinsuyo,
00:21the greatest empire America has ever seen.
00:24There is a dense, mineral silence, the kind of silence that only exists at 3400 meters above sea level.
00:33sea,
00:33where the air is so thin and pure that every sound seems to be cut with a knife.
00:39In the distance, almost imperceptible, the murmur of the Huatanay River descends through the ravine.
00:47The stars of the Andes are obscenely bright. The Incas know them all by name.
00:53This scene has been reconstructed using artificial intelligence from early colonial chronicles,
01:01archaeological findings at the site of historic Cusco, and the work of researchers such as John Rowe,
01:07Art Tom Suidema and Brian Bauer, who have dedicated decades to deciphering what daily life was like in the navel
01:16of the world.
01:16What you are about to read is the closest that science and narrative can bring you to that dawn.
01:23lost.
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01:40Cusco in the year 1500 was a city of approximately 100,000 inhabitants,
01:46although some scholars raise that figure to 150,000 if outlying neighborhoods are included
01:53and the satellite towns that orbit around the ceremonial core.
01:57At that time, it was one of the most populated cities in the world.
02:01For comparison, London at that time had about 50,000 inhabitants.
02:07Lisbon, the great Portuguese maritime capital that has already rounded the Cape of Good Hope,
02:13It does not exceed 65,000.
02:15The Cusco surpasses both of them, and does so without the wheel, without alphabetic writing,
02:21without an architectural arch, without iron.
02:24Zapa Inca Huayna Capac has only been on the throne for a few years
02:28after the death of his father, Túpac Yupanqui,
02:31and the Tahuantinsuyo extended from southern present-day Colombia to central Chile,
02:37more than 4 million square kilometers under the control of a single administrative state.
02:44It will only take 32 years for all of that to start collapsing.
02:49But this morning, nobody knows that.
02:52The city you are going to explore has neither chaotic streets nor noisy crowds,
02:58like the capitals of the Mediterranean.
03:00Cusco was literally designed in the shape of a puma.
03:05The Incas called it Puma Pampa, the plain of the puma.
03:09The animal's head was the fortress of Sac Zahuamán, at the top of the hill.
03:14The body, the residential and ceremonial area.
03:17The tail, the confluence of the Guatanay and Tulumayu rivers,
03:22artificially channeled to delineate the city limits.
03:26Everything has a purpose.
03:28Nothing is accidental.
03:30Let's walk around the outside streets before entering a house.
03:34The streets of Cusco are narrow, barely 3 or 4 meters wide in most cases,
03:41paved with flat and perfectly level stones.
03:45There is no mud when it rains, as there is in European cities of that time,
03:49because there is an underground drainage system that channels water to the rivers.
03:55The smell is not the fetid stench of medieval European cities,
04:00where garbage is thrown out of windows and pigs roam freely among pedestrians.
04:05Here the air smells of damp Andean earth.
04:09Not eucalyptus yet, because eucalyptus will arrive with the Spanish.
04:13To toasted corn, to the smoke of queñua wood, and to the aromatic plants that the inhabitants cultivate in their
04:20patios.
04:21The Inca state has waste collection.
04:24Teams of workers called mitayoc are responsible for keeping the city clean as part of the rotating work system.
04:32Cusco, by world standards in 1500, is a remarkably hygienic city.
04:38The walls that surround you are made of stone, but not just any stone, nor in any way.
04:45The walls of Cusco have two main styles.
04:48In the ceremonial area and in the residences of the elite, the technique is what we now call Inca ashlar
04:55or pirca,
04:56andesite and limestone blocks cut with such precision that they fit together without a single gram of mortar.
05:03In some walls, the blocks have slightly trapezoidal or polygonal shapes,
05:09with angles that fit together like a three-dimensional puzzle.
05:13A technique that is also seismic.
05:16When the ground shakes, and it shakes frequently in the Andes,
05:20The blocks slide slightly over each other and then return to their place.
05:25The wall breathes.
05:26It doesn't fall.
05:28Engineering without formal engineers.
05:30Paperless.
05:31Without written calculation.
05:33Only experience passed down from hand to hand through generations.
05:38Let's cross the threshold of a court.
05:40The cancha is the basic unit of Inca housing.
05:44Imagine it as a walled rectangle between 30 and 60 meters on each side,
05:49with a single entrance to the outside.
05:52Within that rectangle there are three to eight individual buildings
05:56arranged around an open central courtyard.
05:59The family we are going to visit this morning is noble.
06:03It belongs to the class of the big-eared ones,
06:05so named because of the large ear ornaments that dilate their earlobes,
06:10the visible mark of lineage.
06:12The patriarch, let's call him Cusi Hualpá, is a mid-ranking curaca,
06:18administrator of the state warehouses in this sector of the city.
06:21He's not from the royal family, but he's several steps above the average peasant.
06:27The central courtyard, the inner court, is the heart of family life.
06:32It is a space of compacted and perfectly level earth,
06:36about 20 meters long by 15 meters wide.
06:40In the center there is a sacred stone, a huanca,
06:43a low, worn monolith representing the family's founding ancestor.
06:48In front of that stone are remains of an asisa.
06:51Every morning the family burns small offerings,
06:55dried corn kernels, coca leaves, a little chicha spilled on the ground.
07:00This practice is called pagapú and is as commonplace as preparing breakfast.
07:05The Incas separate the sacred from the domestic.
07:08The sacred is the domestic.
07:11The first building we find upon entering is the main huasi,
07:15the home of the head of the family.
07:17It has only one floor, like all Inca buildings,
07:21but its walls reach 4 meters in height
07:24and the thatched roof, ichu, from the puna,
07:27It is built with a steep incline,
07:30almost 45 degrees to evacuate the heavy rain of the wet season.
07:35The doors are trapezoidal,
07:37wider at the base than at the top.
07:40An aesthetic and structural detail that makes the opening more resistant under the weight of the wall.
07:45There are no windows to the outside.
07:47Light enters through the door and sometimes through small rectangular openings.
07:52facing east, towards the rising sun.
07:55Inside, a warm, orangey gloom reigns.
08:00What's inside this room?
08:02Far less than a modern mind would expect,
08:05and much more than it seems.
08:07The floor is made of beaten and polished clay with stone,
08:11almost polished.
08:12There is no furniture as we know it.
08:14There are no chairs, no tables, no beds with legs.
08:18The Inca family lives close to the ground.
08:21There are thick, woven fabrics made of alpaca and vicuña wool,
08:25folded in layers on the floor and used as a mattress,
08:28seating and blankets, depending on the time of day.
08:32Textiles are the great luxury and the great art of the Tahuantinsuyo.
08:35A fine, soft fabric, made with vicuña fiber,
08:39It requires hundreds of hours of work and is literally more valuable than gold.
08:45The Spanish conquerors will be astonished by the quality of the textiles they will find.
08:50Comparable to or better, they will say, than the finest silk in Europe.
08:55Along the walls there are trapezoidal niches embedded in the stone,
09:00between 40 and 80 centimeters high, between 30 and 60 centimeters wide.
09:05These are the maguilla, the ritual and storage niches.
09:09The figures of the ancestors rest in them,
09:13small statuettes of stone or metal,
09:16vessels with fermented chicha for the offerings
09:18and the family's most prized possessions,
09:22gold ear ornaments, a polished pyrite mirror,
09:25spondylus necklaces,
09:27the seashell that arrives from the coasts of Ecuador
09:30and that the Incas call muyu, the blood of the sea.
09:34The muyu is the quintessential luxury item in the Tahuantinsuyo.
09:38It is used in rain rituals,
09:40It is offered to the water gods
09:42And possessing it is a sign of wealth and connection
09:45with the empire's trade networks.
09:48Cusigualpa awakens.
09:50He does it without alarm.
09:51and without the abrupt awakening of the industrial world.
09:54The Inca body, adapted to centuries of Andean life,
09:58It follows the sun's cycle with precision.
10:01which today we would call circadian.
10:03He rises in the darkness of the courtyard
10:05the time before dawn
10:07and does the first thing he does every morning.
10:10Walk towards the central courtyard,
10:11He kneels before the ancestral huanca
10:14and mutters a prayer to Inti, the sun, in a low voice.
10:18It is not a long or formulaic prayer,
10:21It is an intimate conversation with the deity who orders the universe.
10:25The Incas believe that the sun is their father,
10:28literally,
10:28that the Inca savage is his son on earth.
10:31That's not a metaphor,
10:32It is operational cosmology.
10:35Morning hygiene is simple and effective.
10:38In the courtyard there is a small fountain with running water,
10:41a perfectly constructed stone canal
10:44that brings water from the spring on the hill.
10:47Water in Cusco is abundant and clean,
10:50channeled from the Ambine thaw
10:52through a system of irrigation ditches
10:54that reaches the noble residences.
10:57Cusigualpa washes his face,
10:59Wash your arms and feet with cold water.
11:01The Incas bathed regularly,
11:03more frequently than most Europeans of his time.
11:07And the ritual bath,
11:08the chalampuy,
11:10It has sacred dimensions as well as hygienic ones.
11:13The Spaniards who arrived in 1532
11:16They will describe the Andean indigenous people
11:18as very clean in their personal hygiene,
11:20a comment that would be ironic
11:23given the state of hygiene in European cities in the 16th century.
11:27How do they dress?
11:29The answer tells us about a social system
11:31coded in fiber and dye.
11:34Cusigualpa wears an uncu,
11:36a sleeveless tunic that falls to the knees,
11:39woven from alpaca wool.
11:41Color matters.
11:42Black and dark brown correspond to mourning and grief.
11:46Crimson red, obtained from cochineal,
11:50It is reserved for the elite and the nobility.
11:52Pure white for the most sacred rites.
11:55Gold ear piercings that stretch and dilate earlobes
11:59up to the size of an egg,
12:00They are their mark of lineage,
12:02visible from 50 meters away.
12:05His wife, Cori Guaira,
12:07wears an anaku,
12:08a large rectangle of fabric that wraps around the body
12:11and it is fastened with a belt called a chumpi
12:14and with silver pins called tupus,
12:17whose heads are small works of art,
12:19pumas, llamas, stars.
12:22Her hair is carefully braided and gathered.
12:26Hair care in the Inca world
12:28It's a matter of identity.
12:30There are specific hairstyles for each region of the Tahuantinsuyo
12:34and a foreigner can be identified
12:36because of how she wears her hair before she opens her mouth.
12:40Let's go to the kitchen.
12:41On the Cusigualpa field,
12:43The kitchen occupies a separate building
12:45in the northwest corner of the courtyard,
12:48away from the main residence.
12:50This is no coincidence.
12:51Fire is the great enemy of thatched roofs
12:54and the separation between kitchen and bedroom
12:57It's a security measure
12:58that the Incas learned through blood and ashes.
13:01The kitchen is a dark space,
13:04smoky,
13:05with a stone hearth in the center
13:06and several ceramic pots supported on clay tripods.
13:10The Inca pots, called mancas,
13:13They have a rounded shape with a narrow neck,
13:16perfect for keeping warm.
13:18There are additional niches in the kitchen walls.
13:21where food is stored,
13:23bags of chuño,
13:24the potato dehydrated by exposure to the night cold
13:27and to the Andean sun,
13:28the most revolutionary food America has ever invented
13:32and that the Incas perfected
13:34as a conservation technique centuries ago.
13:36Chuño can be stored for up to 10 years
13:39without losing its nutritional properties.
13:41It is the basis of the state storage system,
13:45the Colcas,
13:46the imperial storehouses
13:47that keep the army's reserves always full
13:50and of the population in case of famine.
13:53What do they actually eat?
13:54The noble family's breakfast includes mote,
13:58boiled white corn in water
13:59until the grains burst and become creamy,
14:02mixed with aromatic herbs
14:04and sometimes with pieces of dried llama meat.
14:07The potato is present in all its forms,
14:10fresh,
14:11cooked over hot coals,
14:12like chuño reconstituted in broth
14:15or as tunta,
14:16the white variant of chuño
14:18processed with running water.
14:20The chili pepper,
14:21the uchu,
14:22He's in everything,
14:23not as an exotic species,
14:25but as a staple food,
14:27integrated into each preparation
14:28with the same naturalness
14:29that the Mediterranean uses olive oil.
14:32And then there's the chicha,
14:34the acja,
14:35Andean beer fermented from corn
14:37which is simultaneously food,
14:39social currency,
14:41ritual offering
14:42and status symbol.
14:43The good chicha takes three days to ferment.
14:46The Cusigualpa family
14:48has a private aclaguasi,
14:50a fermentation space
14:52where the women of the house
14:53They prepare the corn,
14:54chewing it first,
14:56because of the amylase in human saliva
14:58It is the catalyst for fermentation.
15:00Yeah,
15:01Inca chicha
15:02It is made by chewing corn.
15:04This will cause a scandal
15:06to the Spanish chroniclers.
15:08There is also
15:09an exotic delicacy
15:10at the table of the nobles,
15:11suri meat,
15:12the Andean rhea,
15:14brought from the eastern valleys,
15:16or on special occasions,
15:18fresh llama meat,
15:19a luxury,
15:20because the blades
15:21They are primarily pack animals
15:23and his sacrifice
15:24It implies giving up
15:25to a productive resource.
15:27The jerky,
15:28dried meat
15:29that the English
15:30will adopt centuries later
15:31under the name of jerqui,
15:33It's another Andean invention
15:34who will travel the world.
15:36The morning progresses.
15:38Cusigualpa
15:38He has a job.
15:39As administrator
15:40from the warehouses in the sector,
15:42their daily task
15:43This involves examining the quipus,
15:45knot logs
15:46that constitute
15:47the information system
15:48of the empire.
15:49The quipus
15:50They are instruments
15:51of astonishing sophistication.
15:53Cotton ropes
15:55or wool
15:55of different colors
15:56with knots
15:57of different types
15:58and positions
15:59that encode numbers
16:00in the decimal positional system,
16:02the same system
16:03that we use today.
16:04But the researchers
16:06most recent
16:07They believe that the quipus
16:08could encode
16:09something more than numbers,
16:11narrative patterns,
16:12genealogies,
16:13stories.
16:14The quipu kamayuk,
16:16the master of the quipu,
16:17You can read information
16:18than to a modern observer
16:20It seems like a tangled mess to him
16:21of colored wool.
16:22It's in words
16:23from the historian
16:24Marcia and Carlos Hurton
16:26the only system
16:27registration
16:28no graphic
16:28of the ancient world
16:30capable of encoding
16:31complex information
16:32without resorting
16:33images
16:34nor visual symbols.
16:36Coriguaira
16:36meanwhile
16:37supervises
16:38domestic work
16:39with an authority
16:40peaceful.
16:41Women
16:42in the Inca world
16:43they are not simply
16:44housewives
16:44in the modern sense,
16:46They have a role
16:47specific economic
16:48and coded.
16:49The fabric
16:50It's women's work,
16:51but also
16:52is economic production
16:53that the State
16:54and acknowledges.
16:55In the Tahuantinsuyo
16:57the concept exists
16:58of half,
16:58rotating work
17:00mandatory
17:00that every citizen
17:02owes to the State
17:02and the women
17:03contribute
17:04with fabric,
17:05chicha
17:06and service
17:06in the institutions
17:07imperials.
17:09Coriguaira
17:09is in charge
17:10to three llanaconas,
17:12servants of the house
17:13linked to the family
17:14through links
17:15which are not exactly
17:16slavery,
17:17but neither
17:18full freedom,
17:19something in between
17:20and specifically
17:21Andean.
17:22The children of the house,
17:24two men
17:2410 and 12 years old
17:25and a girl
17:26of 8,
17:27They have mornings
17:28very different
17:29each other.
17:30The men
17:30have begun
17:31Now to learn
17:32responsibilities
17:33of his lineage.
17:34The oldest
17:35sometimes accompanies
17:36to his father
17:36in the review
17:37of the quipus,
17:38sitting in silence,
17:40observing how
17:41The knots are read.
17:42The minor
17:43is in the stage
17:43still of the game,
17:45although the game
17:46Inca is not a time
17:47free without purpose.
17:48The children are playing
17:49with clay tops,
17:51with llama figurines
17:52carved in stone,
17:53with rubber balls
17:55who arrived
17:55to the Amazon
17:56through the networks
17:57imperial trades.
17:58The girls
17:59They learn to weave
18:00since they can
18:01sustain a use
18:02and the girl
18:038 years old
18:04already produces
18:04colored ribbons
18:05elementals
18:06with a loom
18:07waist.
18:08The animals
18:09domestic
18:09from the court
18:10They deserve their own
18:11chapter.
18:12In the courtyard
18:13There are four slats,
18:14sacred animals
18:15and work
18:16at the same time,
18:17that move
18:18with that expression
18:19of gentle disdain
18:20that camels
18:21of the old world
18:22share with their
18:23American cousins.
18:24The slats
18:25They are not mounted,
18:26They don't pull with wings,
18:27but they can load
18:28up to 30 kilograms
18:29and explore
18:3020 kilometers
18:31per day
18:31without protesting.
18:33They are also
18:33the animal
18:34of sacrifice
18:35par excellence
18:35in the rituals
18:36Incas,
18:37when the shoe
18:38inca
18:38wants to thank
18:39in the sun
18:39a victory
18:40military
18:40or a good
18:42harvest,
18:42They are the slats
18:43white
18:44without stains
18:44those that are offered.
18:45In the corner
18:46from the patio
18:47further away
18:48There are also a couple
18:49of guinea pigs,
18:50guinea pigs,
18:50who live
18:51in a species
18:52cash register
18:52earthen
18:53low and open.
18:54The guinea pig
18:55It is protein
18:55everyday,
18:56easy to raise,
18:57cycle
18:58reproductive
18:59very fast,
18:59and its consumption
19:00it's so integrated
19:01in culture
19:02Andean
19:03that the painters
19:04of the 17th century
19:05will represent
19:06the last supper
19:06with a guinea pig
19:07on the center plate.
19:08And there are cats
19:10also,
19:10although not the Europeans,
19:12but the catho
19:12from the Andean mountain
19:13partially domesticated,
19:15whose function
19:16major
19:17It's the same
19:17than in the old
19:18Egypt,
19:19mouse control
19:20in the warehouses.
19:21At midday
19:22the family
19:23meets
19:24in the courtyard
19:24for lunch
19:25major.
19:26It's food
19:27most important
19:28of the day,
19:28the large micuna.
19:30They are served
19:30two or three
19:31different pots,
19:32a thick soup
19:33of potatoes
19:34and herbs,
19:35a preparation
19:36of corn
19:36with chili
19:37and dried meat
19:38and plenty of chicha.
19:39There are no tables,
19:41the food
19:41is deposited
19:42on the ground
19:42on a wedge,
19:44small cloaks
19:44tissues
19:45what do they do
19:45the times
19:46of tablecloths.
19:47The family
19:48eats sitting down
19:49on the ground
19:49using your fingers
19:51and small spoons
19:52wooden
19:52or ceramics.
19:53The Incas
19:54They don't have a fork,
19:55but neither
19:56They need it.
19:57Their preparations
19:58They have the consistency
19:59appropriate
19:59for lunch
20:00by the spoonful
20:01or directly
20:01with the hand.
20:02What there is
20:03It is a strict order.
20:05The boss
20:06of the family
20:06first
20:07to the ancestral Huanca,
20:09spilling chicha
20:10on the stone
20:11before eating
20:12himself.
20:13No food
20:14starts
20:15without that gesture.
20:17The afternoon
20:17belongs
20:18to work
20:19and to the exchanges
20:20social.
20:21Cusigualpa
20:22visit the market
20:23of the sector,
20:24the katu,
20:25a space
20:26not quite
20:26trading
20:27monetary,
20:28because the Incas
20:29They don't use currency.
20:31but barter
20:32regulated
20:32and redistribution.
20:34The state
20:35inca
20:35works
20:35about the economy
20:36of reciprocity.
20:38The citizen
20:39work submission
20:40and production
20:40to the state
20:41and the state
20:42returns food,
20:44clothes
20:44and security.
20:45In the katu
20:46they are exchanged
20:47surpluses,
20:48a fabric
20:49for chuño,
20:50medicinal herbs
20:51made of ceramics,
20:53coca from the valley
20:54from Urubamba
20:54for dried fish
20:55from the coast.
20:56Cocaine
20:57It deserves a mention
20:58special.
20:59The leaves
21:00of coca
21:00are the plant
21:01sacred
21:02of Tahuantinsuyo,
21:03but also
21:04a stimulant
21:05daily
21:06that fights
21:06the cold,
21:07hunger
21:08and fatigue
21:09from the air
21:09rarefied.
21:11Chewing coca
21:12with a little
21:12of quicklime,
21:13the jeep,
21:15It's so normal
21:15in Cusco
21:16of 1500
21:17how to take
21:18a coffee
21:18in a bar
21:19from Madrid
21:19of the 21st century.
21:21Only the nobles
21:22and the priests
21:23have access
21:24to coca
21:25quality.
21:26Cocaine
21:26ordinary
21:27circulates between
21:28the population
21:29general,
21:29but always
21:30with restrictions
21:31of the state.
21:32The sun
21:33begins to descend.
21:35At this time
21:36at sunset,
21:37Cusco
21:37it becomes
21:38of pure gold.
21:39The walls
21:40of Andesite
21:41capture
21:41the orange light
21:42and they reflect it
21:43multiplied.
21:44The fortress
21:45from Saxaiguamán,
21:47visible from
21:48almost anything
21:49point of the city,
21:50It seems to be burning.
21:51In the Coricancha,
21:53the Temple of the Sun,
21:54which is less
21:55of one kilometer
21:56from the court
21:56from Cusigualpa,
21:57the priests
21:58They perform the rituals
22:00evening
22:00and the faint sound
22:02from their pututos,
22:03the seashells
22:04hermonials,
22:05it sometimes arrives
22:06to the neighborhood
22:07when the wind
22:07It blows from the hill.
22:09The Coricancha
22:10It is at this moment
22:11one of the buildings
22:13richer
22:13of the earth.
22:14Its walls
22:15interiors
22:16are lined
22:17of irons
22:18gold
22:18and in his garden
22:19inside
22:20There are plants
22:21made of gold
22:21and silver,
22:22life-size,
22:23metal flames
22:25precious
22:25and ears of corn
22:26golden corn
22:27that the winds
22:28They never give in.
22:30The Spaniards
22:31will melt
22:31all this
22:32in ingots
22:33in 1533.
22:35Dinner
22:36It is lighter
22:37that lunch,
22:38soup,
22:39warm chicha,
22:40midday remnants
22:42and then,
22:43around the little one
22:44patio stove,
22:45the family
22:46meets
22:46with a pair
22:47of neighbors
22:48from the court
22:48adjacent
22:49for the only one
22:50activity
22:50that the Incas
22:51practice
22:52with the same
22:53passion
22:53that the Greeks
22:54and the Romans,
22:55the narrative
22:56oral.
22:57There is no theater,
22:58There are no books.
22:59But there is a tradition
23:01of jarabicus,
23:02poets and storytellers
23:03that memorize
23:04and recite
23:05the myths
23:05of creation,
23:06the feats
23:07of the Zapotecs
23:08previous,
23:09the legends
23:10of the apus,
23:11the spirits
23:12from the mountains.
23:13Tonight,
23:14one of the neighbors
23:15recites a fragment
23:17of the myth
23:17of Manco Capac
23:18and Mama Oclo,
23:19the founders
23:20mythical people of Cusco
23:22that emerged
23:23from Lake Titicaca
23:24sent by the sun
23:25to civilize
23:26to men.
23:27The children
23:28they listen
23:29with the eyes
23:29open
23:30in the dark
23:31illuminated
23:32through the flames
23:33from the bonfire,
23:34exactly
23:34like their great-grandparents
23:36they listened
23:36the same story
23:37and like their great-grandchildren
23:39They will have to listen to her
23:40if the world
23:41It doesn't change.
23:43But the world
23:44It's going to change.
23:455,000 kilometers away
23:46from here,
23:47in that same year
23:48of 1500,
23:49Pedro Álvarez Cabral
23:51He just played
23:52the coast of Brazil.
23:53There are Latin sails
23:55on the horizon
23:56of the Atlantic.
23:57The story
23:58of the world
23:58is about to
23:59to fold
23:59a bend
24:00that nobody
24:01You can see it coming.
24:02Tonight,
24:03Cusigualpa
24:04he knows nothing
24:04about that.
24:05He prays his last
24:06prayer to Inti,
24:08the sun,
24:08and asks
24:09tomorrow
24:10go out again,
24:11because in cosmology
24:12inca,
24:13the sun
24:13It's not an automatic process,
24:15but a divinity
24:16who decides
24:17daily
24:18if to continue
24:19their path
24:19through the sky.
24:20The human ritual,
24:22the offering,
24:23the pagapu,
24:24They are the contract
24:25that guarantees
24:26the sunrise.
24:27Humanity
24:28and the cosmos
24:29are needed
24:29mutually.
24:30The human creature
24:32She is not a spectator
24:33of the universe,
24:34but its maintainer
24:35active.
24:37That is perhaps
24:38the idea
24:38deeper
24:39and stranger
24:40that the Tahuantinsuyo
24:41bequeaths to the world,
24:43that the cosmos
24:44It's fragile
24:44and that its continuity
24:46It depends on us.
24:48The flames in the courtyard
24:49They ruminate in silence.
24:51The stars of the south,
24:52the southern cross
24:53that the Incas
24:54They call it Chacana
24:55and consider
24:56a constellation
24:57of paramount importance,
24:59They turn slowly
25:00on the thatched roof.
25:01The Guatanay River
25:03murmurs in the darkness
25:04and Cusco,
25:06the navel of the world,
25:07the heart
25:08of the stone animal
25:09bigger
25:10that America
25:11has built,
25:12sleep.
25:14Thirty-two years
25:14after,
25:16Francisco Pizarro
25:17will enter through those
25:17same streets
25:18narrow
25:19and perfectly
25:20paved.
25:21You will find a city
25:22unbelievable.
25:24He will write to the crown
25:25from Spain
25:26that what is in front of him
25:27surpasses in order
25:29and cleaning
25:29to any city
25:31that I have seen
25:31in Europe
25:32and then it will begin
25:34to destroy it
25:36systematically,
25:36brick by brick
25:38gold
25:38and of stone,
25:39to build on top
25:41the capital
25:41of the viceroyalty
25:42from Peru.
25:43But that too
25:44That's another story.
25:45for another reconstruction.
25:47If you've made it this far,
25:49I'm glad to have you
25:50on this trip.
25:51Leave me a comment
25:52what other forgotten world
25:54Do you want us to rebuild?
25:55together.
25:56Baghdad
25:57of the caliphs,
25:58Japan
25:59of the samurai,
26:00Venice
26:01Renaissance,
26:02Tenochtitlan
26:03of Moctezuma.
26:04Each story
26:05what do you suggest?
26:06It's a world
26:07that we return
26:08to life.
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