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Pachacuti built irrigation networks, cultivated terraces, roads and hospices. The "Road of the Inca" (Qhapaq Ñan) stretched from Quito to Chile. [64] Pachacuti is also credited with having displaced hundreds of thousands in massive programs of relocation and resettling them to colonize the most remote edges of his empire.
Pachacuti" is an appellation created from pacha, equilibrium, and kuti, an act of overturning; Pachacuti was, therefore, someone whose dynamism and power changed the balance in the world. [4] The Sapa Inca was conceptualized as divine and was effectively head of the state religion. Only the Willaq Umu (or Chief Priest) was second to the emperor.
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However the large majority of reliable sources say that Atahualpa was the son of a woman from the panaka of Pachacuti. [13] [7] [14] [15] Therefore, the conflict was most likely a conflict between the panakas. [6] According to the French historian Henri Favre the panaka of Topa Inca was in the Hurin (low) part of Cusco.
In Inca mythology, Unu Pachakuti is the name of a flood that Viracocha caused to destroy the people around Lake Titicaca, saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world. [1] The process of destruction is linked with a new construction. It has a very deep meaning in the language and traditions. Some people would translate it as ...
The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu, [14] "the suyu of four [parts]". In Quechua, tawa is four and -ntin is a suffix naming a group, so that a tawantin is a quartet, a group of four things taken together, in this case the four suyu ("regions" or "provinces") whose corners met at the capital.
The Kingdom of Cusco (sometimes spelled Cuzco and in Quechua Qosqo or Qusqu), also called the Cusco confederation, [2] was a small kingdom based in the Andean city of Cusco that began as a small city-state founded by the Incas around the start of 13th century.
Pachakutiq , Pachakutik or Pachakuti (Hispanicized spellings Pachacutec, Pachacútec, Pachacuti) may refer to: Pachacuti, an Inca emperor; Pachakutiq (Arequipa-Moquegua), a mountain on the border of the Arequipa Region and the Moquegua Region, Peru; Pachakutiq (Cusco), a mountain in the Cusco Region, Peru