Intihuatana
Illustration — Intihuatana (the corner broken) Intihuatana is a ritual stone in South America associated with the astronomic clock or calendar of the Inca. Its name is derived from the local Quechua language. The most notable Intihuantana is an archaeological site located in Machu Picchu in the Sacred Valley near Machu Picchu, Peru.
Intihuatana
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Illustration — Intihuatana (the corner broken) Intihuatana is a ritual stone in South America associated with the astronomic clock or calendar of the Inca. Its name is derived from the local Quechua language. The most notable Intihuantana is an archaeological site located in Machu Picchu in the Sacred Valley near Machu Picchu, Peru.
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The name of the stone (coined perhaps by Hiram Bingham) is derived from Quechua: inti means "sun", and wata- is the verb root "to tie, hitch (up)" (huata- is simply a Spanish spelling). The Quechua -na suffix derives nouns for tools or places. Hence inti watana is literally an instrument or place to "tie up the sun", often expressed in English as "The Hitching Post of the Sun".
Písac, Peru, sun temple
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Intiwatana ubicada en las alturas del distrito de Chuschi, provincia de Cangallo, departamento de Ayacucho.
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- Solutions and limitations of the geomatic survey of an archaeological site in hard to access areas with a latest generation smartphone: the example of the Intihuatana stone in Machu Picchu (Peru), ACTA IMEKO, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Use of the sensors of a latest generation mobile phone for the three-dimensional reconstruction of an archaeological monument: the survey of the Intihuatana stone in Machu Picchu (Peru’), IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
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- “Intihuatana”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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