Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/g98hq3 Of Summits and Sacrifice By: Thomas Besom Publisher: University Of Texas Press Print ISBN: 9780292719774, 0292719779 eText ISBN: 9780292783041, 0292783043 Copyright year: 2009 Format: EPUB Available from $ 25.00 USD SKU 9780292783041 In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous authors to record the details of the religious rituals that the Inkas believed were vital for consolidating their conquests. Synthesizing these arresting accounts that span three centuries, Thomas Besom presents a wealth of descriptive data on the Inka practices of human sacrifice and mountain worship, supplemented by archaeological evidence.Of Summits and Sacrifice offers insight into the symbolic connections between landscape and life that underlay Inka religious beliefs. In vivid prose, Besom links significant details, ranging from the reasons for cyclical sacrificial rites to the varieties of mountain deities, producing a uniquely powerful cultural history. Additional ISBNs 9780292725720, 0292725728
