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Around 200 varieties of potatoes were cultivated by the Incas and their predecessors. The llama was the Inca pack animal, but not large enough to be ridden or used for plowing fields. A staple crop grown from about 1,000 meters to 3,900 meters elevation was potatoes. [17] Quinoa was grown from about 2,300 meters to 3,900 meters. [17]
Axomamma (also Acsumamma and Ajomamma) is a goddess of potatoes in Inca mythology.She is one of the daughters of Pachamama, the earth mother. [1] Potatoes forms a vital part of the food supply of the Incan people, and most villages had a particularly odd-shaped potato to worship and to beg for a good harvest.
In the Altiplano, potatoes provided the principal energy source for the Inca Empire, its predecessors, and its Spanish successor.Andean people prepared their potatoes in a variety of ways, such as boiled, mashed, baked, and stewed in ways similar to modern methods.
Inca cuisine originated in pre-Columbian times within the Inca civilization from the 13th to the 16th century. The Inca civilization stretched across many regions on the western coast of South America (specifically Peru ), and so there was a great diversity of unique plants and animals used for food.
Potatoes were grown by the Incas of Peru as long ago as 8,000 BC. In the 16th century, Spanish colonists in Peru came across the vegetable and transported potatoes back to Europe. Surprisingly, it ...
Around 200 varieties of Peruvian potatoes were cultivated by the Incas and their predecessors. It is estimated that the Inca cultivated around seventy crop species. The main crops were: potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, chili peppers, cotton, tomatoes, peanuts, an edible root called oca and the pseudograins quinoa and amaranth.
Both the potato and the sweet potato originally hail from the Incan region. Maize was also cultivated in the region since 3000 BCE. A major component of the Incan diet that has recently become popular again is quinoa, another native plant. A traditional meat comes from the Peruvian guinea pig, considered a delicacy.
Inca mythology of the Inca Empire was based on pre-Inca beliefs that can be found in the Huarochirí Manuscript, and in pre-Inca cultures including Chavín, Paracas, Moche, and the Nazca culture. The mythology informed and supported Inca religion. [1] One of the most important figures in pre-Inca Andean beliefs was the creator deity Viracocha.