Incas

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Un riguroso ensayo histOrico para conocer de cerca la historia de una de las civilizaciones mA fascinantes de la AmErica precolombina.

Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete or otherwise adequate English translation in the 346 years which have elapsed since its publication in Spanish. Now the Inca's thrilling narrative comes into its own in the English speaking world.

Hernando de Soto's expedition for the conquest of North America was the most ambitious ever to brave the perils of the New World. Garcilaso tells in remarkably rich detail of the conquistadors' wanderings over half a continent, of the unbelievable vicissitudes which beset them, of the Indians whom they sought to win for King and Church and by whose hands most of them died, of De Soto's death, and of the final pitiful failure of the expedition.

Yunpacha, un antiguo espía del servicio secreto del imperio incaico, es convocado por el general Cusi Yupanqui para realizar una última misión: infiltrarse en Cajamarca y preparar el ataque que liberará al Inca Atahualpa, capturado por unos extranjeros. Yunpacha parece ideal para este rol. Aunque es hijo de campesinos chancas, accedió a una educación privilegiada en el Cuzco por su capacidad de contar cifras a extraordinaria velocidad. El Espía del Inca recrea, con una sólida documentación a sus espaldas pero asumiendo las licencias de la ficción novelística, este infructuoso intento de rescate.

A personal exploration of the conjunction between ancient Mesoamerican prophecy and New Age higher consciousness

• Selected by the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards as one of the top two New Age books of the year

• Explores ancient prophecies and their relevance in the contemporary world

The Incan and Mayan cultures saw themselves as “children of light”--descended from celestial realms--and their prophecies foretell a time of great spiritual awakening. As the ancients predicted, the human god-seed is beginning to awaken, and modern civilization is finally beginning to perceive human potential in ways that the ancient cultures accepted as truth. Polich introduces techniques for awakening our own human potential through dreaming, meditations, and the power of sacred sites.

History of the Inca Realm is a classic work of ethnohistorical research that has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean prehistory. Maria Rostworowski uses a great variety of published and unpublished documents and secondary works by Latin American, North American, and European scholars to examine topics such as the mythical origins of the Incas, the expansion of the Inca state, the political role of women, the vast trading networks of the coastal merchants, and the causes of the disintegration of the Inca state in the face of a small force of Spaniards.

La Florida del Inca relata las aventuras de los expedicionarios españoles en sus incursiones en la península de la Florida en Norteamérica.

Un riguroso ensayo historico para conocer de cerca la historia de una de las civilizaciones ma fascinantes de la America precolombina.

Completed in 1653, Father Bernabe Cobo's Historia del Nuevo Mundo is an important source of information on pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America. Though parts of the work are now lost, the remaining sections which have been translated offer valuable insights into Inca culture and Peruvian history.

Inca Religion and Customs is the second translation by Roland Hamilton from Cobo's massive work. Beginning where History of the Inca Empire left off, it provides a vast amount of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples. Despite his obvious Christian bias as a Jesuit priest, Cobo objectively and thoroughly describes many of the religious practices of the Incas. He catalogs their origin myths, beliefs about the afterlife, shrines and objects of worship, sacrifices, sins, festivals, and the roles of priests, sorcerers, and doctors.

The section on Inca customs is equally inclusive. Cobo covers such topics as language, food and shelter, marriage and childrearing, agriculture, warfare, medicine, practical crafts, games, and burial rituals.

Because the Incas apparently had no written language, such postconquest documents are an important source of information about Inca life and culture. Cobo's work, written by one who wanted to preserve something of the indigenous culture that his fellow Spaniards were fast destroying, is one of the most accurate and highly respected.