This page groups sacred sites by whether UNESCO has formally recognized them. Wikipedia notes elsewhere that cultural traditions can be "recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity," the same kind of international listing that applies to World Heritage sites. Browsing by UNESCO status lets a visitor see which sacred sites carry that international recognition and which do not.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingTemples, mountain shrines and sacred stones of the Andean world, in which the landscape itself is the sacred object: peaks, springs, caves and worked and unworked stones are huacas. At Cusco they were organised on a system of sight-lines radiating out from the Qorikancha, each line maintained by a named kin group. 2 Peoples and Traditions CoveredThe Inca state was one Andean polity among many and its religion was built on older ones - Wari, Tiwanaku, Chimu and the local cults it absorbed as it expanded. Quechua- and Aymara-speaking communities live in the same landscape today, and offerings to mountains and to the earth continue to be made there. 3 Origins
Whose Classification This IsMuch of what is recorded of Inca religion reaches us through the Spanish chroniclers and through the seventeenth-century campaigns to extirpate idolatry, whose purpose was to find and destroy the shrines they describe. The written record is a record of that destruction as much as of the cult. 3 Learn More
Sacred Sites of the Inca
This group holds the sacred sites of the Inca and wider Andean world, the temples, mountain shrines and sacred stones of the empire that ruled the Andes before the Spanish conquest. Andean religion sanctified the landscape itself, its peaks and springs held as huacas, dwelling-places of the sacred.
The browser will find the Inca temples and mountain sanctuaries the atlas gathers. The entries describe each site's religious meaning, noting the survival of Andean sacred practice into the present.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System
3. The Incas, 2nd edition
Terence N. D'Altroy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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