"'This book is the story of an experiment,' to quote the author (p. 12). Focuses on myth as the key to understanding the Incas' past. Many conclusions differ from those of standard scholarly literature. Some examples that run counter to orthodox views on Andean peoples are the notion that Andean myth recounts significant precessional events; the view that the three worlds of Andean cosmology were understood, on one level, as locations on the celestial sphere, united by the Milky Way; and the idea that Andean peoples not only had names for all the planets visible to the unassisted eye, but also associated them with important deities. Uses ethnoastronomical studies of Gary Urton and R. Tom Zuidema"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
- ISBN10 0517328003
- ISBN13 9780517328002
- Publish Date 13 July 1998 (first published 26 March 1996)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House Value Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Language English