• Foto Number: AND-302

The Intihuatana, the ‘resting place of the sun’ or ‘stone to which the sun is tied’, at Machu Picchu. Depending on the shadow cast by this stone, the Inca priests determined the season and thus the time for sowing, an approaching rainy season, and so on. - Book: Picture 127 - Peru - 1976

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  South America Peru Cuzco Machu Picchu Andes Central Andes Incas Intihuatana Archaeology