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MACHUPICCHU Pachacutec Machu Picchu

archaeologist Luis G. Lumbreras unravels mysteries of the Inca citadel.
MACHU PICCHU

• In recent CD Rom on Machu Picchu, Luis Guillermo Lumbreras says citadel and sanctuary as well, would have been the mausoleum of the great Inca unifying Tahuantinsuyo.
• The original name would have been Patallaqta, "At the Abyss." GONZALES MARIA

archaeologist and director of the INC, Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, presents new revelations about Machu Picchu. The researcher says that besides being a sanctuary and a fortress, the archaeological monument was the mausoleum of the Inca Pachacutec. These investigations are part of the CD Rom Machu Picchu published by Fundación Telefónica, which was presented last Thursday at the Teatro Municipal of the city of Cusco.
multimedia production containing photos, videos, audios, maps, illustrations, animations and virtual reconstructions guided speech on the Inca citadel built during the rule of Inca Pachacutec.
a royal tomb

Guillermo Lumbreras shown in the CD that Machu Picchu had three functions: it was a city, a sanctuary and the royal mausoleum of the Inca Pachacutec.
The Inca's embalmed body had been in the area now known as the Royal Tomb, under the main tower, which then known as Patallaqta (the edge). "That should be the name you gave Pachacútec Lumbreras-and-hold and not be called Machu Picchu, which means that old hill has no sense." The body of the Inca was located so that during the winter solstice, from 21 to 24 June, the sun came through the windows and were taken as an announcement of a new agricultural cycle. Besides the body of Inca mummies were other more in what is now known as the Crypt of the Condor.
According to the Andean conception, death is the passage to another existence, hence the body has been so carefully embalmed. "No one could speak of burials, says Lumbreras, but rather the conservation of bodies. In fact, there were 300 or 400 people who lived in the citadel and had the task of reviewing the cult of the dead Inca "he adds. The argument that Machu Picchu would have been a royal mausoleum dates back to 1970, investigations of the archaeologist Manuel Chavez Ballon. But Luis Guillermo Lumbreras also based on the chronicle of Juan de Betanzos, Narrative of the Incas. "Juan de Betanzos was a English soldier who married Dona Angelina, of the dynasty of Pachacutec, so she would have given the data, "he explains. Pachacutec's embalmed body would have been located at the Machu Picchu hanan, with temples, shrines and palaces. While in the hurin, the bottom, were the buildings, houses, paths and steps that characterize long Machu Picchu.
CONQUISTADOR BODY Luis Guillermo Lumbreras
ensures that the embalmed body of the Incas, even after the arrival of the English, were objects of worship. "So the English launched an aggressive pursuit of the mummies of the Incas" Lumbreras said. Ondegardo Polo, who was also a writer, he found, on request the Viceroy of Cañete, the bodies of Pachacutec, Huayna Capac and his wife, Mama Ocllo in a house in Cusco. The bodies were buried, according to Catholic doctrine dictates, in a hospital in Lima, San Andres, who was in Barrios Altos. During the nineteenth century, José de la Riva Agüero and Toribio Polo unearthed the bodies and found a pile of bones that probably belong to the Incas. "