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	Huaca de la Luna
		The archaeological complex Huacas del Sol y de la Luna (Temple of the Sun and the Moon) which is located in the northern coast of Peru includes two big truncated pyramids, the Huaca Las Estrellas (Temple of the Stars), the Huaca del Cerro Blanco (White Hill Temple), the spider geoglyph and other constructions.
		In a landscape dominated by the imposing Cerro Blanco (White Hill), vegetation thrives because of the river Moche and the proximity of the sea.
		Both huacas are separated by an esplanade 500 meters wide, under which lays the urban center where the Moche elite lived.
	www.huacadelaluna.org.pe /en/HuacadelaLuna.asp (0 words)

	Huacas in Lima - Lima Peru by Peru Travels
		In ancient Peru, a huaca was the term granted to a river, a tree or a mountain attributed with magical powers if the spot was inhabited by a deity or an ancestor; along the coast the term was given to stepped pyramid-shaped temples.
		One example is the Huaca Pucllana in the Miraflores neighborhood, today a historical and cultural park.
		The complex was a ceremonial and administrative center run by the Lima culture (400 AD), which controlled the Lima Valley.
	www.perutravels.net /peru-travel-guide/lima-huacas.htm (301 words)

	World Mysteries - Ancient Walls by Richard Nisbet
		Most of what we have been told about huacas came from the Jesuit Priest Bernabe Cobo, who wrote a hundred years after the conquest.
		Every huaca had prescribed sacrifices to be made on specific days.
		Most of the sacrifices were not human, but Cobo claimed that 32 of the shrines required human sacrifice, usually of children.
	www.world-mysteries.com /gw_rn1b.htm (0 words)

	Huacas
		Tourism Cares is pleased to announce its participation in a matching grant program with IAC/InterActiveCorp for the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna (Pyramids of the Sun and Moon) Archaeological Project in Peru.
		The funding was initiated by Marj Charlier, a travel industry executive and frequent visitor to Peru.
		The goals of the Huacas de Moche Project are the research and conservation of the archaeological monument and the development of public visitation facilities at the Huacas de Moche complex in northern Peru.
	www.tourismcares.org /Huacas.aspx (0 words)

	Huacas del Sol y de la Luna : experiencing existential tourism
		The Huacas del Sol y de la Luna are located in the Capital of the Moche Culture, and thus, is a necessary stop in a trip going through Trujillo or the Moche Road.
		Before arriving to the Huacas, you go through the Campiña de Moche, the only rural area where inhabitants still devote themselves to agriculture, stock breeding, handicrafts, and the typical gastronomy of this place, despite Trujillo's modernity.
		The Huaca del Sol has been working as a political center, and the Huaca de la Luna as a ceremony center.
	www.peruhotel.com /english/article.php3?idarticle=18 (769 words)

	Proyecto "Huaca de la Luna" - UNT (2)
		Today the Huacas are surrounded by farmland in the province of Trujillo, department of La Libertad, five kilometers south of the city of Trujillo and 6 kilometers inland.
		Current research suggests that it was a ceremonial center and an urban settlement dominated by the Huacas del Sol and Luna¡ while the plain between the two Huacas was filled with cemeteries and housed a dense residential population.
		The Huaca is very eroded, thanks in part to sporadic but intense rains, but mainly to looting in Colonial times, when treasure hunters diverted the Moche river and washed away two-thirds of the Huaca.
	www.unitru.edu.pe /cultural/arq/huacas/huacasin2.html (1800 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Salomon and Urioste, The Huarochirí Manuscript
		If huaca priests had retained the loyalty of people officially bound to Christianity, it was in all likelihood because they had succeeded, under the adverse conditions of clandestinity and church hegemony, in presenting huaca religion as comparable in cogency with the church's teachings.
		Huaca is applied to any temple, large or small, to the sepulchers set up in the fields, and to the corners in their houses where the Devil spoke to their priests....
		huacas might travel on the way to establishing their dwellings but once victorious they had—they were—their locales, and it was the deity-locale that gave wealth and identity to human groups.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsalhua.html (18437 words)

	Huacas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Incan mythology, the Huacas were similar to the Greek nymphs, gods representing lakes, rivers, mountains, forests and rockss.
		Huacas are said to be holy and places.
		Each Huaca in the Inca Empire had its own place in the religious hierarchy (27).
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hu/huacas.html (90 words)

	Huacas
		Is a huaca a tomb and a huaco an artifact recoverd from the tomb?
		Here in Panama, "huacas" have come to mean the artifacts removed from the graves of the Indian tribes who prospered on the rich and lovely lands of the Isthmus until the Spaniards came to plunder, kill and drive them from their homes.
		In a 1,200-year-old grave of a Carib Indian goldsmith, Neville Harte, one of the foremost local experts on the golden huaca, believes he found the ancient melting secret of what is called the lost-wax method of casting.
	www.czbrats.com /MiNombre/huacas.htm (1011 words)

	THE FABLES AND RITES OF THE YNCAS.
		Atun-Uiracocha is in the huaca of Urcos; where there was an eagle and a falcon carved in stone at the entrance of the huaca and an image of a man with a white robe reaching to his feet, and coming down to his waist.
		They returned to their homes with the huacas they had brought for the festival of the previous year, and, as a recompense for their trouble in having come from such great distances, their chiefs were given gold and silver and clothes and servants, and permission to travel in litters.
		The huacas, it was announced, were enraged with all those who had been baptized, and it was declared that they would all be killed unless they returned to the old belief and renounced the Christian faith.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/inca/rly/rly1.htm (18317 words)

	House Of The Sun Or "Huaca del Sol", & House Of The Moon Or "Huaca de la Luna", Peru Travel And Tour Photos And Pictures
		The Huaca del Sol stepped pyramid is made up of four main platforms that rise up from the northeast, where an access ramp would have stood, toward the southwest where there is a fourth, lower and narrower platform.
		The name “Huaca del Sol”; is really not known since there are no indications as to what was the original name of the site, which must have been in the now-extinct Muchik language, spoken here during the 15th Century.
		We were at the "Huaca del Sol" and "Huaca de la Luna" on April 27, 2006 during the morning from 11:00 AM until about 12:45 PM.
	www.delange.org /SunMoonTemple/SunMoonTemple.htm (1302 words)

	Peruvian Huacas - sacred places (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Padre Arriaga tells us that the native Peruvians had household huacas, personal huacas which might be included in a burial, communal huacas preserved by the priests, family huacas called canopas which descended within the family.
		The most respected huacas are the malquis or munaos, the bones of their ancestors, preserved in the fields apart called machays.
		In his work, Padre Arriaga claims to have destroyed chuchas and chacpas, along with 603 principal huacas, 3418 canopas, and 189 huancas (large stones), and he burned 617 malquis and 477 bodies taken from the church.
	www.jacobsarts.com /KieferBoytonPeru/Peru/huacas.htm (294 words)

	Peru Travel Guide by iLatinTravel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They are two pyramidal huacas; built with adobe (made with mud), each piece of adobe has the maker's mark.
		These huacas are a sample of the highest technology that the Mochicas had in the art of building.
		This huaca, was an adoration temple of ritual character, it belongs to Chan Chan's citadel.
	www.ilatintravel.com /webapp/ilatintravel/articulo.jsp?cod=1998827 (470 words)

	Suchmaschine
		The huaca could also be the sacred location of one of the adopted (conquered) subkingdoms of the empire of the Incas or their preceding empires, such as the complex at Lake Titicaca.
		In this instance huacas and pacarinas became significant centers of shared worship and a point of unification of ethnically and linguistically diverse empire bringing unity and citizenship to often geographically disparate peoples.
		The European conquerors considered huacas to be idols to lesser gods than theirs, but they could not easily destroy a mountain or even a rock with their primitive technologies.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Huacas (1005 words)

	joel donnet News 111
		Such a power and wealth were necessary to erect the impressing Huacas of Moche with adobes (crude clay bricks), which are linked by a 500m-long true town that ruled the country in its heydays, with some 15,000 to 30,000 inhabitants.
		This Huaca de la Luna, which was 20-meter high, was indeed erected along the centuries, with courtyards and buildings replacing the previous ones after they had been filled up and thus transformed into basement.
		It is likely that the Huaca del Sol was smaller when the seat of power resided in the one of the Moon, and it took its present great size only when the power of the Huaca de la Luna faded.
	perso.orange.fr /joel.donnet/News114.htm (3764 words)

	index.html
		The Huaca del Sol was built on the edges of the Moche River Valley in the department of la Libertad.
		The Huaca del Sol was a very large adobe structure that measured about 345 meters by 160 meters but was destroyed by the rains that occurred after they were built.
		Archaeologists came to the conclusion that the Huaca del Sol had been a cementery for many cultures because the art on the tombs belonged to different cultures including Incas, Chimu and Moche.
	www.amersol.edu.pe /ms/8th/cww/journal/huacas1.html (241 words)

	Inca Empire III. Inca Civilization
		A huaca might be a great temple built by humans; an object found in nature, such as a hill, spring, stream, or rock; or a small amulet, or charm.
		Every Inca family had a huaca, some object of worship that was put in a niche in the home.
		Offerings were repeatedly given to the huacas to maintain balance in nature and society.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/incaempire3e.htm (399 words)

	Huaca Concha: INVESTIGACIONES REALIZADAS ANTES DE LA CONSTRUCCION DEL ESTADIO
		Hutchinson contabilizó 17 huacas del Complejo Maranga al cual denominó "antigua ciudad de Huatica" llamándole especial atención tres grandes montículos ubicados al norte del asentamiento, a las que denominó "huacas del grupo Pando", por el nombre de otra hacienda que se encontraba en las proximidades.
		Denominó a la Huaca Concha "Colina 17" y señaló que se asentaba sobre una gran plataforma conformada por acumulaciones de cantos rodados.
		Planteó que huacas como San Marcos (colina 16 de Middendorff) eran anteriores a una supuesta expansión Tiahuanaco y corresponderían al Proto-Lima de Uhle.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/9071/hconcha.htm (2849 words)

	Unity of Origin and Beliefs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The other two huacas can be identified with the highest peaks within the territories of each of these two guarangas.
		Together, each pair of huacas define the upper and lower elevational extremes of the territories of their guarangas (Topic 1992:74).
		The spread of the cult of Catequil to Ecuador is the subject of ongoing research and is peripheral to this discussion.
	arqueologia.deperu.com /wamachuko/1998(3).html (1704 words)

	LAS HUACAS QUE RODEAN CHAN CHAN
		La Huaca Las Conchas actualmente solo representa un montículo de piedras, presumiblemente haya servido para hacer adoratorios y sacrificios, hay una teoría de que al igual que la huaca del Obispo serían solo piedras que amontonaban para librarlas a los campos de cultivo y poder sembrar ya que como se ha dicho eran excelentes agricultores.
		Huacas del Sol y la Luna se encuentran en la campiña de Moche a unos 9 Kms.
		Estas Huacas son quizás el mejor ejemplo de como ante la pobreza se pueden hacer grandes cosas, sus responsables han sabido capear el temporal de la estrechez económica y están dando grandes alegrías a los trujillanos y al mundo en general.
	www.telefonica.net /web2/chimu (817 words)

	Andean Cosmology by James Q. Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hemming reports that during the Inca empire the huacas around Cuzco were arranged in lines called ceques.
		Along these forty-one ceques, extended to the horizon and beyond, were located 328 survey points or huacas.
		Huacas are a general category of sites such as mountains, rocks, hills, springs, caves, made-made pyramids, pillars, towers, and other monuments, places of origin, burial places, caves of ancestors, cairns of stones and other special places in the landscape.
	www.jqjacobs.net /andes/cosmology.html (2843 words)

	Religion of the Incas
		Families would often have a sacred amulet or some other huaca in their home, which they sacrificed to in order to sustain the balance between nature and society.
		Mummies of dead rulers were the holiest huacas in the empire.
		They were treated as if they were still alive: continuing to own the property they had when alive, “eating” with their descendents and each other, and enjoying important ceremonies.
	enloehs.wcpss.net /projects/candc/merg/ememerg7/ememerg7.html (749 words)

	GORP - San Martin to Siquirres - Kayaking the Rio Pacuare
		The sight of Huacas Falls alone is worth a trip to Costa Rica.
		Beyond Lower Huacas are several Class III rapids, but none are of difficulty comparable to Lower Huacas.
		Kayaks can negotiate the rapid with relative ease, but rafts have a very difficult time of it, for frequent changes of course are required to avoid wrapping on one of the numerous boulders.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/menasha/pad_pac4.htm (1144 words)

	Quillarumiyoc - Poqen Kanchay Project
		We began the cleansing in a central area that one is able to see in the walk to the first principle huaca, Quillarumiyoc.
		Cori is "gold" huayrachina is "to scent or to sniff; to pry into; to crack open".
		Maybe the true meaning of this huaca was a place where one could conduct the high energy that was cracking open in the earth at this site.
	www.poqenkanchay.com /Report1_Quillarumiyoc.htm (895 words)

	Proyecto "Huaca de la Luna" - UNT (1)
		Until that time, the great adobe monuments known today as the Huacas del Sol and de la Luna were described by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish chroniclers as the works of the gentiles (indigenous peoples) a term they used to refer to the descendants of native peoples in the New World.
		The old capital at the Huacas of Noche lost power and a new, smaller center was built at Galindo, located at the neck of the Noche valley.
		The discovery of the tomb of a warrior priest at Huaca La Cruz became one of the most oft-cited lines of evidence to support the notion that Moche was a theocratic state.
	www.unitru.edu.pe /cultural/arq/huacas/huacasin1.html (1976 words)

	Pre-Columbian Art
		Many facts are known, but even they change according to the books read or experts consulted.
		Placed in the tomb with other items chosen to accompany him on his journey to another life, the gold ornaments remained sun bright for hundreds of years.
		Satisfying the current craving for the unique and exotic, huacas are growing in popularity as the gift that everyone wants to own or to give.
	vivapanama.org /BatistaPreColumbianArt.htm (467 words)

	Conquistadors - Amazonia
		This constellation was responsible for the preservation of seed and was especially honored.
		Offerings were made to huacas to ask for their help.
		The most important huacas were offered sacrifices – children and llamas were killed and buried beside them.
	www.pbs.org /opb/conquistadors/peru/adventure1/a3.htm (196 words)

	Capitulo IX (Site not responding. Last check: )
		La capital de este naciente Estado se ubicó en torno a las Huacas del Sol y la Luna, con una compleja planificación arquitectónica que obedece a una marcada diferenciación social y funcional.
		Similarmente, en los trabajos de excavación de un recinto en Huaca Cao Viejo, se encontró también un.." conjunto de tiestos correspondientes a porras emblemáticas que originalmente debieron estar adornando el techo del recinto" (Vásquez 1993:163).
		Donnan y Mackey al excavar en el complejo de huacas del sol y la luna hallaron extensas cantidades de entierros con cerámica correspondiente a las fases III y IV (1978).
	arqueologia.deperu.com /infvm9.html (4276 words)

	The Huacas del Sol y de la Luna
		The Huacas del Sol y de la Luna are located in the lower to mid valley, on the left bank of the Moche river on a plain below the imposing Cerro Blanco.
		Today the Huacas are surrounded by farmland in the province of Trujillo, department of La Libertad, five kilometers south of the city of Trujillo and 6 kilometers inland.
		We don't know the original names of these monuments, but they have been called the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna for the past century.
	www.huacas.com /page40.htm (0 words)

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