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Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the earth/time mother.

In Inca mythology, Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on this earth. Her shrines are hallowed rocks, or the boles of legendary trees, and her artists envision her as an adult female bearing harvests of potatoes and coca leaves.

In pre-Hispanic culture, Pachamama was often a cruel goddess eager to collect her sacrifices. After the Spanish colonization of the Americas, conversion to Roman Catholicism took place and the figure of the Virgin Mary was equated with that of the Pachamama for many of the indigenous people.
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The Incas' genius, like that of the Romans, lay in their masterful organizational abilities. Amazingly, an ethnic group that probably never exceeded 100,000 individuals was able to regulate the activities of roughly ten million people. This was in spite of the fact that the empire's citizens spoke more than seven hundred local languages and were distributed among 2,500 miles of some of the most rugged and diverse terrain on earth.
Kim MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas

Beginning in about 3200 B.C., roughly during the same period when the Egyptians were building their first pyramids, people on Peru's northern coast began building terraced mounds alongside large plazas, ceremonial architecture, and large-scale settlements.
Kim MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas

The Incas, although an authoritarian monarchy, had succeeded nevertheless during their short reign not only in creating a massive empire, but perhaps more importantly in guaranteeing all of the empire's millions of inhabitants the basic necessities of life: adequate food, water, and shelter. It was an achievement that no subsequent government, Spanish or Peruvian, has attained since
Kim MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas

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