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The Inca believed that the natural world had patterns that corresponded to those of a higher order of intelligence, and they built ceremonial centers to reflect such sacred correspondences. Beings seeds of the divine, they looked to the heavens for guidance and for indications of their intent of the creator.
There was a curious but undeniable correlation between astronomical events and the unfolding of Incan history. The transformations that occurred in the Incan world seemed to correlate with how the solstice suns entered and left the Milky Way. This synchronicity began in the year 200 B.C. when the solstice sun first entered the Milky Way. According to Incan myths, it was at this time that the bridge to the land of the gods opened, and Wiraccocha entered this world. Then, after civilization developed, Tiahuanaco arose and experienced a golden age, which ended in about A.D. 650 with the advent of warfare with the Wari people. In the sky at that time, the June solstice sun no longer entered the Milky Way; the gateway to the gods was closed. Finally in 1544, with the death of Huayna Capac Inca, and with the Milky Way no longer at all visible at the June solstice, time ended. The Spanish arrived and devastated the empire. With a mere 175 men, Francisco Pizarro devastated an empire of over 6 million people.
During the conquest, the Spanish, directed by the Catholic Church, systematically destroyed nearly all vestiges of Incan spiritual life: every lineage waka, every intihuatana stone, all the ceremonial sites, and the quipus. Moreover, the conquistadors invaded sanctuaries of the Virgins of the Sun, whom they raped. The agricultural terraces and irrigation systems were seized but were not maintained. As a result, the people were no longer connected to the stars from which they originated; the solstices and equinoxes so vital to the people's vision could no longer be accurately observed; the people's ties with history were severed; and there were no longer any surpluses of food or water but instead droughts and famines. The conquistadors, driven by overwhelming greed and a blind arrogance based on an indoctrinated sense of moral superiority, had but two interests: subjugation and gold.
The story in Mesoamerica is much the same as that in Peru, although in both regions, even long after their golden ages, the civilizations overrun by the Spanish were in many ways far more advanced and progressive than the cities of Spain at that time. Since the Vatican had decreed that the Indigenous people of the Americas were not human and thus had no souls, anything was tolerated in the blind pursuit of the one and only god - gold. From Cuzco alone, the Spanish took billions of dollars worth of gold, often in the form of extraordinary pieces of artwork melted into ingots. Much of the wealth that came from the conquests ended up in the coffers of the Catholic Church, which, in turn, continued to support the conquistadors.
Ultimately, the goal of the conquistadors was to break the spirit of the people. They were enslaved and brutalized, stripped of everything that had meaning, and their religious practices were outlawed. However, despite this violence, the seed did not die, but instead went underground, within the unconscious, where in the realm of our deepest yearnings it awaited the return of the light.