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Machu Picchu: The so-called
"Intihuatana" or "Itching post of the Sun"

The Intihuatana: Solar Post or Astronomical device...?
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Author
Graham Hancock
(1999:293)
points at the fact that the
name Intihuatana - which ascribes the function of a sundial to the
monument - was given "rather arbitrarily by Hiram Bingham, the
American explorer who discovered Machu Picchu in 1911." Then adds how: "It
does definitely exhibit solar alignments [...] But it is by no means an ideal
shadow-casting or sighting device."
More interestingly, he goes further in explaining how
"archaeoastronomer Ray White recently uncovered depictions of four
constellations that are prominent in the Andean skies - the Southern Cross, the
Summer Triangle, the bright 'eye stars' of the dark cloud constellation in the
Milk Way that the Incas called the Llama and the Pleiades. These were the
constellations that are believed to rule the four suyus, or quarters, of
the Inca empire."
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