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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  Pachacamac Temple City of the Sun, Peru! Oracular Destination
Pachacamac (pronounced: pah cha kamak) lies 25 miles SE of Lima adjacent to the Pan American highway astride the Pacific coastline.
Built centuries before the time of the Incas, Pachacamac is noted for its great pyramidal temples, and for the remains of frescoes adorning its adobe walls.
The first occupation of Pachacamac began around 200 AD with complex architecture, included were stone walls that served as the base for the fantastic adobe structures.
www.labyrinthina.com /pachacamac.htm   (850 words)

  
  Pachacamac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ancient city of Pachacamac is a ruin 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River.
One by one, as the children were born, he tried to kill them - only to be beaten and to be thrown into the sea by her hero-son Wichama, after which he gave up the struggle and contented himself by becoming the supreme god of fish.
Pachacamac was the name of the ship that originally carried the abducted Professor Calculus in The Seven Crystal Balls album of The Adventures of Tintin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pachacamac   (553 words)

  
 Pachacamac
In Incan mythology, Pachacamac ("Earth-maker") was a chthonic creator-god, originally worshipped by the Yuncas[?] but then adopted by the Incan Empire.
He was a son of Inti and Mama Quilla, and husband of Mama Pacha.
The woman cursed Pachacamac, accusing him of neglect, and he made her fertile.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pachacamac.html   (104 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pachacamac at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Credit for Pachacamac's endurance is partly due to the desert climate of the central Peruvian Pacific coast --- it never rains in Lima, so what erosion you might have had in other parts of the world is, in Lima, caused more by the effects of wind and evening mists than by torrential downpours.
Pachacamac is located 20 miles south of the city on the southbound Pan-American highway.
Pachacamac is an interesting vista into ancient South American cultures, and it gives you some idea of how their religions and society worked.
www.epinions.com /content_183240920708   (1968 words)

  
 Paper: Tom Zuidema
Pachacamac "He who animates the World" primarily was the Underworld god causing earthquakes but may have been related also to the fertil ity of the Earth.
The worship in Pachacamac to the Lord of the Earthquakes may have been taken over in Lima by the popular cult of Christ as the Lord of Miracles or Lord of Earthquakes.
Essential parts of the various myths of Viracocha or similar deities seem to be that their field of action is from the mountain s to the coast --never to the eastern lowlands-- and that waters of a river are followed.
www.colorado.edu /Conferences/pilgrimage/papers/Zuidema.html   (4077 words)

  
 UFO Area Archaeologists uncover 69 tombs in Pachacamac, Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Archaeologists have uncovered a multilevel grave site at the ancient ruins of Pachacamac, including mummy bundles containing whole families and pilgrims who presumably sought cures from an oracle deity for diseases like syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer, the project's leader said on Monday.
Pachacamac, 32km south of the capital, Lima, was a sprawling ceremonial centre of 18 mud-brick pyramids with ramps and plazas ruled by the Ychsma lords from 900 AD to 1470.
Eeckhout said that archaeologists began exploring Pachacamac in the 1890s but found much of the nearly 600-hectare ruins already looted, and quickly ran out of intact tombs to explore.
www.ufoarea.com /aas_archaeologistsunc.html   (480 words)

  
 The Making of Religion, by Andrew Lang Chapter XIV MORE SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS
Pachacamac had no temple, 'but they worshipped him in their hearts.' That he was the Creator appears in an earlier writer, cited by Garcilasso, Agustin de Zarate (ii.
Against his theory of Pachacamac as a result of philosophical thought, it may be urged that similar conceptions, or nearly similar, exist among races not civilised like the Incas, and not provided with colleges of learned priests.
So closely did Pachacamac resemble the Christian Deity, that Cieza de Leon declares the devil to have forged and insisted on the resemblance![18] It was open to Spanish missionaries to use Pachacamac, as to the Jesuits among the Bantu to use Mpungu, as a fulcrum for the introduction of Christianity.
englishatheist.org /mar14.shtml   (7025 words)

  
 Pachacamac - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
PACHACAMAC [Pachacamac], ruins of a walled Native American settlement, Peru, about 25 mi (40 km) SE of Lima in the Lurin Valley.
The Huari Empire, based in the south central highlands of Peru during the period AD 600-800, gained hegemony over the central coast of Peru and sponsored construction at Pachacamac, probably turning it into a major Huari administrative center.
The site of Pachacamac has been preserved, and one of the Inca structures, the Mamacuna, has been reconstructed.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pachacam.html   (574 words)

  
 Pachacamac
Pachacamac es un gran complejo arquitectónico con muchos edificios que fueron construidos en diferentes épocas, desde los primeros años de nuestra era hasta el siglo XVI.
Pachacamac acudían los peregrinos de todo el Perú en busca de soluciones a sus problemas o respuestas a sus dudas.
Los sacerdotes de Pachacamac les explicaron que tenía que esperar, tenían que hacer ayuno, que verlo nadie podía, que solo ellos lo escuchaban, que cualquier cosa que le quisieran decir se la dijeran a través suyo.
www.naya.org.ar /peru/pch.htm   (2535 words)

  
 Pachacamac paracas Travel to Peru
Our full day tour start with the visit to Pachacamac, which is the most important Incas administrative and religious center in the coast.
Pachacamac is an archaeological enclosure whose constructions conserve the mysticism and religiosity of their past.
When traveling this sanctuary, where hundred of years ago the natives surrendered cult to the sun and to the Earth, one can feel the magic attraction of a place that will always be sacred, The investigations presume that this place was inhabited since the year 200 up to 1533.
www.cusco.info /pachacamac_paracas.htm   (499 words)

  
 Desempolvando Pachacamac
Pachacamac fue una de las grandes metrópolis del Imperio de los Incas, tanto o más importante que el Cusco, a decir de algunos estudiosos.
Pachacamac fue la "mezquita", donde convergían, con sus ofrendas, peregrinos de la costa del Perú, e incluso de Chile y Ecuador.
Pachacamac aún guarda secretos, que aún no es tarde para desentrañarlos a base de estudio e investigaciones, que es justamente lo que se han propuesto Izumi Shimada, profesor de origen japonés, y María Rostworowsky, con el apoyo del Instituto Nacional de Cultura y el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
www.caretas.com.pe /1998/1533/pachacamac/pachacamac.htm   (1129 words)

  
 March Resources @ National Geographic Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The dead are beginning to tell tales at Pachacamac, a sprawl of ruins and graves near Lima, Peru.
Most important, radiocarbon dating suggests that the pyramids were not occupied at the same time, as embassies would have been, but one after another in successive periods of about 30 years—the average length of a ruler's reign.
If excavations at Pachacamac show that its core was filled not with religious monuments but with the seats of secular rulers, then power in ancient Peru may have been shared by lords and priests to a far greater degree than was previously thought.
magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0503/resources_cre.html   (1019 words)

  
 Vijalis_earth_mandala
Achilly Pachacamac is the pre-Incan name for the supreme God, the life force which encompasses all other.
The portrayal of Pachacamac also expresses hope for the Millennium: that men and women live in harmony and equality.
I would like to connect my efforts with EarthWays, who is in the process of leasing part of the Rainforest for ecotourism as a way to protect the rainforest from oil development and to support and protect the rainforest communities and culture.
www.awakenedwoman.com /vijalis_earth_mandala.htm   (1550 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Pachacamac (Archaeology, General) - Encyclopedia
A.D. 600–800, gained hegemony over the central coast of Peru and sponsored construction at Pachacamac, probably turning it into a major Huari administrative center.
Following the expansion of the Inca empire, Pachacamac became an important Inca administrative center, while maintaining its status as a religious shrine.
The Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro heard about Pachacamac from the Inca, while holding the Inca King Atahualpa prisoner at Cajamarca in 1532.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pachacam.html   (517 words)

  
 Pachacamac
When the man died, the woman accused Pachacamac of neglect, whereupon he made her fertile, and she bore a son.
The god killed the son, cut the corpse in pieces from which grew the various fruits and vegetables.
Article "Pachacamac" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2).
www.pantheon.org /articles/p/pachacamac.html   (124 words)

  
 ENJOY PERU ARTICLES - PACHACAMAC RUINS - Stone sanctuary
At the time of the sunset, on the pick of a rocky mountain, the natives of Pachacamac saw a burning fire.
The scene was not a hallucination, they were observing the red walls of the Temple of the Sun that seemed to be fire languages, as the chronicler Cieza of León refers.
The belief in the gods to obtain good crops and fertility in the cattle made the old residents of Pachacamac to carve stones in form of corn ("saramama"), potato ("papamama") or pepper ("uchumama"), those that then were buried with invocations to the sun and to the mother earth (Pachamama).
www.enjoyperu.com /peru_travel_tours_information/conozca_peru_magazine/enjoy_peru_articles/pachacamac_ruins_pachacamac_ruins.html   (532 words)

  
 Peru Travel
It is a holy and ceremonial place that dates back from the beginnings of the Christian era, where millions of pilgrims used to go to give their offers and ask the Oracle for advice in order to see the past events and the coming future.
Pachacamac has a lot of pyramidal temples and enclosures built by several pre-Columbian cultures and by the Incas, such as: Temples of Pachacamac, Dios Sol (Sun God), Las Mujeres Escogidas (Chosen Women), and Las Virgenes del Sol (Sun Virgins).
Pachacamac also has a museum that keeps the idol of Pachacmac’s God.
travel.peru.com /travel/english/tours/detalle_tour.asp?cTour=3   (163 words)

  
 Lima Peru and Pachacamac Peru holiday Information from The Real Peru
Most intriguingly of all, just to the south of Lima lie the remains of the city of Pachacamac, which was sacred both to the Incas and to other, much older, cultures.
In the heart of the Lurín valley, it was the main Inca and pre-Inca settlement in the Lima area.
The entire site, consisting of dozens of streets and temples, was dedicated to the god Pachacamac, who successive cultures in the area venerated as their creator-god and who was felt to be present at the site in the form of an Oracle.
www.therealperu.co.uk /guide/Lima.aspx   (994 words)

  
 Spirits of the Earth - Pachacamac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pachacamac Ruins are at km 31 of the South Pan-American Highway, in the Lurin Valley.
Dedicated to the Pachacamac god ("the maker of the universe"), it was the most famous sanctuary of the central coast, and before the Incas, a popular center of pilgrimage in the 8th century A.D.,.
In Pachacamac we have many temples such as the Temple of the Sun, Moon and Women.
www.v-j-enterprises.com /pacha.html   (129 words)

  
 Los Acllahuasis: Pachacamac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Young girls between the ages of 8 to 10 years of age were chosen by functionaries called Apo Panacas.
The girls were taken to the House of the Chosen or the Acllahuasi, which was a principal building in Pachacamac in central Lima.
There they were educated in weaving and preparing food and drink (chicha), which demonstrates that not all were dedicated to the weaving industry--some learned only the cooking of ceremonial meals.
www2.nau.edu /gender2000/abstracts/Alzamora.html   (245 words)

  
 P B S : C o n q u i s t a d o r s - P i z a r r o   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Pizarro's men reached Pachacamac, they expected it to be outfitted like a great temple with gold statues and other finery.
They were amazed to find Pachacamac virtually empty with the exception of a large wooden statue.
The Spaniards expected to find great treasure, but this wooden statue was the only relic in the great temple at Pachacamac.
www.pbs.org /conquistadors/pizarro/pizarro_h01.html   (115 words)

  
 LIMA CITY, LIMA PERU, TOURS IN LIMA, PACHACAMAC, PERU TRAVEL, CUSCO TRAVEL, PERUVIAN TOURS, PERU TOURS, Peru Travel, ...
After breakfast, we take a 45-minute drive to the ancient pre-Columbian Pachacamac Pilgrimage Centre overlooking the fertile Valley of Lurin and the Pacific Ocean.
The Temple housed an oracle and is considered as one of the Main Ceremonial Centres of pre-Hispanic Peru.
Pilgrims flocked here from far and wide to worship Pachacamac, believed to be the Creator of the World and all of its creatures.
www.peruvian-tours.com /lima_city.html   (532 words)

  
 PACHACAMAC : The deity from Incan Mythology
Mark you, there is nothing to say that he couldn't have given his name to a Pacamac.
His unpopularity was increased further when, in an attempt to rectify the food situation, he turned the First Woman's son into an enormous potato.
It was downhill all the way for PACHACAMAC after that.
www.godchecker.com /pantheon/incan-mythology.php?deity=PACHACAMAC   (173 words)

  
 Lima Sightseeing Tours, Pachacamac Temple and Ceremonial Center
Explore the Pachacamac Ruins, considered by many to be the most important archaeological site near Lima.
Rising to prominence approximately A.D. 700 this pre-Incan temple was later used for adoration of the sun God.
These green valleys amidst the desolate Atacama were cradles of civilization in South America and we’ll start by looking at the remains of one civilization at Pachacamac in the fertile Lurin Valley.
www.go-today.com /site_gtweb/sightseeing-tours/lima-12606.asp   (169 words)

  
 ENJOY PERU ARTICLES - PACHACAMAC RUINS - Stone temples
In spite of the centuries, the colors can still be seen in the walls of the enclosure, in which the oracles were carried out.
According to the Spanish chroniclers, the influence of Pachacamac reached the Central Andes.
In their constructions one can see the effort of this town that ended up transforming Pachacamac into a great ceremonial centre where the main intention was to surrender cult to the gods.
www.enjoyperu.com /peru_travel_tours_information/conozca_peru_magazine/enjoy_peru_articles/pachacamac_ruins_stone_temples.html   (388 words)

  
 Amazon.com: PACHACAMAC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Textiles from beneath the Temple of Pachacamac, Peru: A part of the Uhle collection of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (Museum monographs) by Ina VanStan (Unknown Binding - 1967)
Pachacamac y el señor de los milagros: Una trayectoria milenaria (Serie Historia andina) by María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco (Unknown Binding - 1992)
Pachacamac;: Report of the William Pepper, M.D., LL.
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=PACHACAMAC&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (306 words)

  
 ARTICULOS ENJOY PERU - RUINAS DE PACHACAMAC - Santuario de Piedra
Tanto nobles como campesinos confiaban en Pachacamac, quien les dejaría ver el pasado y el futuro.
Durante el ocaso, en la cima de una montaña rocosa, los antiguos pobladores de Pachacamac veían un voraz incendio.
La creencia en los dioses para obtener buenas cosechas y fertilidad en el ganado hizo que los antiguos pobladores de Pachacamac tallaran piedras en forma de maíz ("saramama"), papa ("papamama") o ají ("uchumama"), las que luego eran enterradas con invocaciones al Sol y a la madre tierra (Pachamama).
www.enjoyperu.com /magazine/otros-artic/pachacamac/index2.htm   (494 words)

  
 Pacha Kamaq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pacha Camac was believed to have created the first man and woman, but forgot to give them food and the man died.
In late Inca mythology he was a son of Inti and Mama Quilla, and husband of Mama Pacha.
The Huari, the Pachacamac empire, Chancay, Chimor and Ichma all at some point possessed the city of Pachacamac but except for the Ichma we do not know if they worshipped the Pacha Camac deity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacha_Kamaq   (218 words)

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