The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, this book restores the pre-Hispanic voices embedded in the chronicles. It identifies two distinctive bodies of Inca oral traditions, each of which encloses a mutually conflicting representation of the past that, considered together, reproduces patterns of Cuzco s moiety division. Building on this new insight, the author revisits dual representations in the cosmology and ritual calendar of the ruling elite. The result is a fresh contribution to ethnohistorical works that have explored native ways of constructing history."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

To my parents 6
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 10
ACKNOWLEDGeMENTS 12
Note: 13
INTRODUCTION 14
Rethinking duality in the Andes: the Inca case 14
Dual organization in the Andes: a theoretical framework 20
Précis of the chapters 31
A note on nomenclature and spelling 33
Part ONE 36
THE POLITICS OF INCA HISTORY 36
Chapter One 38
MAKING HISTORY: knotting and unravelling discursive threads 38
Inconsistencies in content 42
Historiographical responses to the chronicles’ discrepancies 49
Polyphony of the Inca dynastic accounts 56
Chapter two 66
Filiation is history: The Inca dialectical view of the past 66
The Inca conical clan 68
Royal Inheritance Rule 68
The Qhapaq Ayllu 73
Descent Stratification 76
Patterns of Affiliation 79
Siblingship 84
Marriage Preferences 89
Positional Inheritance 94
The accommodation of historical contingency 96
Hanan versus Hurin, or the Legitimation of Inca Kingship 101
The vision of the conquerors 110
Chapter three 112
INCA AND LOCAL ELITES: RITUAL POLITICS OF ASSIMILATION 112
The foreign ayllus of the Inca heartland 114
Ritual geography of the Cuzco region 118
The politics of the initiation ritual 124
Ordeals and pilgrimage 124
Name transmission and the articulation of marriage networks 133
The ritual abduction of an Inca heir 137
The politics of abduction 140
Marriage alliances and imperial expansion 144
PART Two 148
“SOMETIMES THEY HOLD THE SUN AS THE CREATOR
AND OTHER TIMES THEY SAY IT IS VIRACOCHA” 148
Chapter four 150
The ancestral Rulers of the dry season 150
The journey from Lake Titicaca 152
The animating function of Wiraqucha 156
Wiraqucha’s solar aspects 159
Wiraqucha in Inca ceremonies 164
Wiraqucha and the might of the Thunder god 170
From the underground to the firmament:
water regulation in the dry season 175
Chapter Five 182
Epics of the Old Sun 182
The Ayar Siblings’ journey from Paqariq Tampu 183
Appropriating people and resources 185
the Sun god of the chronicles 190
The Moon 197
Hierarchy and the coalescence of solar cults 201
Chapter Six 208
THE INCA CALENDAR AND ITS TRANSITION PERIODS 208
Computations and the Inca calendar 210
Astronomy and the dual structure of the calendar 217
Disruption of the cosmological and social order:
the transition periods 220
First transition period: the harvest season 220
Second transition period: the height of the wet season 227
The rule of Wiraqucha 237
Pachayachachiq and the earth regeneration 237
Tiqsi Wiraqucha and the Rites of Purification 242
Pura Upyay 246
Preparations for the rite of passage 249
The advent of P’unchaw 253
Rituals of fertility and impregnation 257
The celebrations of the Daylight god 261
The end of the maize maturation 263
Politics of the calendar 264
CONCLUSION 268
A bidimensional perspective on Inca historical narratives 268
GLOSSARY 278
Bibliography 280
Manuscript Source 280
Primary Sources 280
Secondary Sources 283
INDEX 302

Making History: Knotting And Unravelling Discursive Threads -- Filiation Is History: The Inca Dialectical View Of The Past -- Inca And Local Elites: Ritual Politics Of Assimilation -- The Ancestral Rulers Of The Dry Season -- Epics Of The Old Sun -- The Inca Calendar And Its Transition Periods. By Isabel Yaya. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Drawing on a redefinition of Inca royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of the chronicles, this book offers new insights into the dynamics of dualistic oppositions in the historical narratives, rituals and cosmology of the Inca ruling elite.

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