Die Kultur der Inkas
Year: 1980
Publisher: Editions Arthaud - Paris – 1980 (French)
Atlantis Verlag - Zürich – 1980 (German)
Text Author: Simone Waisbard
Languages:
French, German
The Intihuatana of Macchu Picchu. At the solstice, the high priest Willac Umu would use a gold chain to symbolically tie the sun, the father of the Incas, to this stone sundial.
In the vast and infinite silence of the Altiplano, Aymara Indians have – since ancient times – played their zampoña pan flutes, whose wistful and strange sounds are carried away by the high winds.
