cuzco history!

this weekend we were out at sacred valley and doing a cuzco tour. there is sooooo mcuh to see, this being the headcity of the inkas! i however am begeninig to dislike the spanish for destroying such a wonderful culture. its intresting though. we visited the first catholic church that was built here and they showed several pictures of how the spanish catholics tried uniting the existing inkan religion with the new one of christ. In a picture of the last supper they are serving guinnipig (which is a festive delight here) and in that same paiting  judas face is actually pictured as the king of spain that took over  central and south america. His face is turned away from christ and he is secretly hiding money in his hand, pretending to be nice while he takes over the country.
The cross that was first shown to the inkans during their first meet between the spanish and inkans during the15th century is still in this cathedral, so there are slightly mixed emoitions about that is that cross is also what brought down the inkans. the spanish showed the power of their god with this cross and the bible but the inkans took a hold of that cross and felt nothing and thought that their god was more powerful. so basically then the spanish took over. kindof sad, they wern´t given a chance.
IN the same cathedral they also they have a christ that is black and they depict pictures of mary with a peruvian face with symbols from the inkin relgion.
It takes forever to upload pictures on here so i will save that for another time but it was incredible! the inkas had such a developed system of building that was more like puzzle pieces interlocking rather that slabs of rock being glued to one another. We had such good tourguides so i am in love with the history of this place. but pictires sooon....
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