The Inca Gods: Forbidden Rituals, Lost Civilizations and the Empire Spain Destroyed

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The Inca ruled one of the greatest empires in the ancient Americas, but their extraordinary civilisation was built upon the remains of cultures far older than their own. Who were the mysterious gods they worshipped? Why did they believe humanity had been destroyed by a catastrophic flood? And what secrets lay behind their sacred mountains, golden temples and astonishing knowledge of the heavens?

From the creator god Viracocha, who emerged from Lake Titicaca and eventually vanished across the Pacific Ocean, to the Children of the Sun and the legendary founders of Cusco, we enter a world of divine bloodlines, ancient prophecies, sacred mummies and rituals intended to prevent the destruction of the world itself.

We investigate the forgotten civilisations of Chavín, Tiwanaku, Wari and Nazca, the terrifying sacrifices carried out on remote Andean mountaintops, and the religious beliefs that gave the Inca emperors authority over millions of people.

Then came Francisco Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors. Temples were stripped of their gold, sacred objects destroyed, and an empire brought to its knees. Yet the conquerors never completely eliminated the ancient beliefs.

Were the Inca gods inherited from a much older civilisation? What did the ancient Andeans know about the heavens, the forces of nature and the recurring destruction of humanity?

Discover the extraordinary mythology, bloody history and surviving mysteries of the Inca Empire.