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(the Aztec and Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche, Chibcha). ... of Europeans. Potatoes were utilized by the Inca, and chocolate was used by ...

The Inca Empire (called Tawantinsuyu in modern spelling, Aymara and ... Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be ...

of the lake's largest islands. In Inca mythology it figured as the place ... According to legends that refer to Inca mythology Isla de la Luna (Spanish ...

maintained their independence against the Inca empire, and later the Spanish ... The Mapuche successfully resisted many attempts by the Inca Empire ...

in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the ... In Inca mythology, the god Viracocha, the creator of civilization ...

in the archeological record and in mythology, it makes it highly likely ... Kon-Tiki was inspired by old drawings of Inca rafts made by the Spanish ...

Mayan and Aztec friezes, pre-Colombian and Inca pottery and jewelry, Hindu ... hostile to, their people's mythology. Many of these philosophers ...

names and various references in the mythology of the indigenous peoples ... ==In Mythology and Culture== The grace and power of the cougar have ...

the gods' favor in warfare. In Greek mythology, Iphigeneia was to be sacrificed ... Despite allusions to the practice in classical mythology, archaeologists ...

In Greek mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by ... Italy; to represent the Tawantin Suyu, or Inca territory, in Peru and Ecuador; ...

Native American mythology There was never one universal Native American ... Sanavirones, among others). In 1480, the Inca Empire under the rule of emperor ...

triumvirate which wrecked and plundered the Inca empire and, as a result, was ... Choctaw mythology The Choctaw have many stories about little people: ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece, cairns were associated with Hermes ... as religious shrines to the indigenous Inca goddess Pachamama, often as ...

in der griech. Mythol. (Plants in Greek Mythology). * National Research Council (NRC). 2006. Lost Crops of Africa. Volume II, Vegetables. Washington ...

Like the Aztec and Inca who came to power later, the Maya believed ... known Mayan work of historiography and mythology, the Popol Vuh. ...

time in Mesoamerica and South America (during the Inca Empire), but the Aztecs practiced it on a particularly large scale, sacrificing human victims ...

become the most recognizable symbol of the Inca Civilization]] ... in the world, much as in later Greek mythology. Many stories in the Sumerian ...

an important part of Nordic Bronze Age mythology.]] was central to civilizations such as the Inca of South America and the Aztecs ...

to Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca Civilization of modern-day Peru (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined ...