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Description

Today I discuss the Inka shrine of Ñawpa Iglesia.

Sources

“Arqueología de Pachar” Francisco Solís Díaz y Nancy Olazabal (1998)

“Of Blood and Soil: Tombs, Wak’as, and the Naturalization of Social Difference in the Inka 

Heartland” Steve Kosiba

In The archaeology of wak’as : explorations of the sacred in the pre-Columbian Andes / Tamara L. Bray, editor. (2015) University Press of Colorado.

Thanks to-

The residents & municipalidad of Ollantaytambo

All photos by Greg Batchelder unless otherwise noted.