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Author: Crown Publishers, William SullivanEdition: 1
Publisher: Crown PubEdition Description: Illustrated
1723687: 0517594684Subject: --
ISBN-13: 9780517594681Sub-Category: --
Format: HardbackLanguage: English
Publication Year: 1996Condition: Used
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"'This book is the story of an experiment,' to quote the author (p. 12). Focuses on myth as the key to understanding the Incas' past. Many conclusions differ from those of standard scholarly literature. Some examples that run counter to orthodox views on Andean peoples are the notion that Andean myth recounts significant precessional events; the view that the three worlds of Andean cosmology were understood, on one level, as locations on the celestial sphere, united by the Milky Way; and the idea that Andean peoples not only had names for all the planets visible to the unassisted eye, but also associated them with important deities. Uses ethnoastronomical studies of Gary Urton and R. Tom Zuidema"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Sullivan argues that the key to the mythology and social structure of the Incas can be found in the belief held by their priest-astronmers that their world was soon to end in a great apocalypse. He further proposes that we understand Inca rituals of warfare and human sacrifice as an attempt to "Stop Time," to forstall the cataclysm that threatened the world as they knew it. This book presents his evidence for this extraordinary thesis.

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Length:413 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.3 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:26.4 oz.

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Step by step, Sullivan pieces together the hidden esoteric tradition of the Andes to uncover the tragic secret of the Incas, a tribe who believed that, if events in the heavens could influence those on earth, perhaps the reverse could be true. Anyone who reads this book will never look at the ruins of the Incas, or at the night sky, the same way again. Illustrations.

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"Sullivan's evidence represents a major scientific and intellectual breakthrough that opens up an entirely new window on the past of mankind."
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"William Sullivan documents the reality behind ritualized human sacrifice and the collapse of one of the world's most expansive empires."
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The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy and the War Against Time

William Sullivan

ISBN: 0517594684
Publisher: Crown
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COMMENTS: spine cocked.. Pages tanned. Endboards bent. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear.



SKU: C-ISBN8I-7-0046

 

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