Meaning of intihuatana

Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

intihuatana

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It is a word of Quechua origin that means where the sun is moored, where the sun is tied. It is the name of a carved rock that is believed to have been used as a solar calendar among the Incas. It was used by looking at the shadows it cast.

  

GARCÍA ALBERTO ENRIQUE

intihuatana- refers to a certain type of carved stone that served as a sundial or astronomical calendar or ritual center, consecrated to the sun god Inti, having its location, among several other places, on the heights of Machu Picchu; it was used to program, according to the cast shadow, the time to make the sowing on earth-

  

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