Apus

The Inca were the latest in the multitude before the Spanish obliterated the storyline. They took their endless heritage and built road networks and temple trails in the sky, connecting the monuments to their sacred geography in an endless, Andean pilgrimage.

The colonial cultures that ‘discovered’ this ‘new’ world saw the Inca simply as the Romans of the continent, warlike and patriarchal. Nothing could be more diminishing. Pachamama was the mother of mountains. Embracing the sky and kissed by the sun, Machu Picchu was the hidden O of her sacred fertility and its priestesses her cyphers. True power lay in her soil's plentiful abundance and supplication to the blissfully terrifying tremors of her heaving earth.