Sacsayhuaman, Cusco, Peru - pronounced Sexy Woman...
Sacsayhuaman (Saqsaywaman)
This site is located north of the city of Cusco, at an altitude of about 3,555 meters above sea level, between the districts of Cusco and San Sebastian.When the Spanish conquerors arrived first to these lands, they could not explain themselves how Peruvian "Indians" could have built such a greatness. Their religious fanaticism led them to believe that all that was simply work of demons or malign spirits. Still today, many people believe in the inability of ancient Quechuas to create such a wonder, so they suggest that they were made by beings of some other worlds, extraterrestrial beings with superior technology that made all that possible. However, our history and archaeology demonstrate that those objects of admiration are an undeniable work of the Incas, Quechuas, Andean people . They are three parallel walls built in different levels with lime-stones of enormous sizes; zigzagging walls that because of their appearance, it is suggested that they represent the "teeth" of the puma's head that the complex represented. The boulders used for the first or lower levels are the biggest; there is one that is 8.5 m high (28 ft.) and weights about 140 metric tons. There are no other walls like these. They are different from Stonehenge, different from the Pyramids of the Egyptians and the Maya, different from any of the other ancient monolithic stone-works. The stones fit so perfectly that no blade of grass or steel can slide between them. There is no mortar. They often join in complex and irregular surfaces that would appear to be a nightmare for the stonemason.Sacsayhuaman was supposedly completed around 1508. Depending on who you listen to, it took a crew of 20,000 to 30,000 men working for 60 years.The chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega was born around 1530, and raised in the shadow of these walls. And yet he seems not to have had a clue as to how Sacsayhuaman was built. (info from-Muyuqmarka Cusco Coricancha Bibliography )
