Hello ladies and gents this is the Cusco Lou telling you that today we are talking about
PACHACUTI
Pachacuti was a Inca ruler you didn’t wish to mess with! Reigned 1438-1471 as the ninth Sapa Inca! He was known to be somebody who sacrificed a lot of his people but did worse to his enemies.
Born before 1438, Cusicancha Palace, Cusco, Inca Empire, modern-day Peru he was somebody who worshiped the sun god Inti. In Quechua Pachakutiq means "reformer of the world"and
Yupanki means "with honor". During his reign, Cusco grew from a hamlet into an empire that could compete with, and eventually overtake, the Chimú. He began an era of conquest that, within three generations, expanded the Inca dominion from the valley of Cusco to nearly the whole of western South America. According to chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega, Pachacuti created the Inti Raymi to celebrate the new year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere. Pachacuti is often linked to the origin and expansion of the Inti Sun Cult.
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Although he had not been designated as successor by his father, Viracocha Inca, he led a military defense against the warlike army of Chanka while his father and his brother, Inca Urco, fled the manor. The victory over the Chankas made Inca Viracocha recognize him as his successor around 1438.
He would turn his enemies skin into eardrums, their bones into musical instruments and use their corpse to scare away anybody who was on the path to the city with I’ll intent.
Numerous kurakas (principal governors of a province or a communal authority) do not hesitate to recognise his skills and identify him as the "Son of the Sun".
In the midst of an invasion of Cusco by the Chankas, the Incas' traditional tribal archenemies, Pachacuti had a real opportunity to demonstrate his talent. While his father and brother fled the scene, Pachacuti rallied the army and prepared for a desperate defense of his homeland. In the resulting battle, the Chankas were defeated so severely that legend tells even the stones rose up to fight on Pachacuti's side. Pachacuti became known as "The Earth Shaker" following the battle, and won the support of his people.
Pachacuti captured many Chanka leaders, who Pachacuti presented to his father Viracocha for him to wipe his feet on their bodies, a traditional victory ritual.
Pachacuti rebuilt much of Cusco, designing it to serve the needs of an imperial city and as a representation of the empire. Each suyu had a sector of the city, centering on the road leading to that province; nobles and immigrants lived in the sector corresponding to their origin. Each sector was further divided into areas for the hanan (upper) and hurin (lower) moieties. Many of the most renowned monuments around Cusco, such as the great sun temple Qurikancha, were rebuilt during Pachacuti's reign.
His son became the next Inca without any known dispute after Pachacuti died in 1471 due to a terminal illness. But in future generations, the next Inca had to gain control of the empire by winning enough support from the apos, priesthood, and military to win a civil war or intimidate anyone else from trying to wrest control of the empire.
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