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Diagram of the Seqe/Ceke system of Cusco, a believed system of energy lines radiating from Cusco that connected through the cities, shrines, temples and sacred sites of the Incan empire. Planned intricately, the temple of Coricancha sat at the center.

Rediscovering the Lost Code of the Inca Cosmic Power Matrix

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The National Museum in Quito, Ecuador exhibits an otherworldly collection of sheet-gold masks representing the Andean sun god Inti. Zig-zag rays of golden light burst from his face and some end in tiny stylized human figures, animals and insects. Most Inti masks were crafted by the La Tolita culture which extended along the coast from the Esmeralda area of Ecuador to the Tumaco Region in Colombia between 300 BC and 400 AD. However, a sun-burst Inti mask was discovered 2000 miles south in Cusco.

Sun God Inti masks (Via Author)

Sun God Inti masks (Via Author)

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Over the decades this collection of Inti masks has been studied by hundreds of professors of archeology and viewed by tens of millions of museum visitors, but they have never been interpreted from the viewpoint of an ancient Inca priest. When doing so, these otherwise data-less, aesthetically pleasing artifacts become multi-interpretational repositories of lost ancestral knowledge, holding in their geometries and iconographies—the Inca’s secrets of creation.

Andean Cosmovision and the Codes of Creation

Western cosmology is built around a self-centric system of observation, where one perceives the universe as consisting of isolated objects, and consciousness is centered upon, and limited to, our own being. Andean Cosmovision is a term which describes how ancient Andean people viewed space and time and how these concepts were spiritualized and ritualized. Cosmovision was mystical and everything in the universe was perceived as a conscious, living filament of energy within an interconnected three-dimensional matrix.

The most important collection of nodes to the Incas was Pachamama.

The most important collection of nodes to the Incas was Pachamama. (A. Kravtsov, A. Klypin/CC BY-SA 3.0 us)

Where filaments collided, nodes were formed, which were tangible objects in this reality; you are a node, as am I a node, as is your car and the screen you are reading this article on. The most important collection of nodes to the Incas was Pachamama (the great bundle of filaments) the cosmic mother— planet earth. Filaments (objects and occurrences) were ordered in a three-dimensional space-time or spatiotemporal levels, called Pachas. The perceivable world of the here and now was Kay Pacha and was represented symbolically with a puma.

Puma head sculpture at Machu Picchu

Puma head sculpture at Machu Picchu (CC BY 2.0)

Hanan Pacha was the upper realm of the sky, planets, suns, moons and stars and gods and was represented by a condor.  Pacha Uku was the lower/inner world represented by a serpent and associated with death and new life, thus, this realm was deeply ingrained in agrarian rituals.

An even deeper mystical concept called Urin Hanan, a Quechua word corresponding to duality, polarity and complementarity, was applied to the basic universal principals of Urin (lower) and Hanan (upper). From these two dimensions, a double-duality was generated which corresponded to the four seasons, four directions and four grandparents, which were represented by the sun, moon, land and water. The entirety of Andean cosmology is therefore reflected in the four stars of the constellation of the Southern Cross and in the four divisions of Cusco and the Inca empire, and in the four sacred roads leading to the Temple of the Sun in Cusco.

Crux, The Southern Cross Star map corresponding with map of ancient Cusco showing the roads leading to the Tawantinsuyu and Hanan and Hurin divisions. (

Crux, The Southern Cross Star map corresponding with map of ancient Cusco showing the roads leading to the Tawantinsuyu and Hanan and Hurin divisions. (Via Author)

To get closer to understanding the cosmological messages encoded into the Inti masks, we must look to a seldom studied area of Inca life called the Unancha Pacha Qellqa (Quechua term for sacred geography codes).

Spiritualized Agriculture of the Inca Empire

Living in a polytheistic, animist, shamanistic universe, snowy mountain peaks ( Apus) were regarded as powerful male entities and worshiped as the phallic creators of life-bringing rivers. Rounded hills, which received the sacred mountain rivers, were providers of female energy and known as Willkas. 

Pre-Hispanic Cuzco was the center of the Inca empire and housed rulers and thousands of priests who operated from the Qorikancha (Coricancha) religious complex. Originally named Inti Kancha (Quechua for "sun house”) this building was not only the most sacred huaca (sacred site) in the Inca empire, but it was regarded as ‘ the navel of the Earth’, the very center of the Andean universe. The House of the Sun, and the Inca empire, were greatly expanded by the 9th ruler Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (1438-1471 CE).

Guaman Poma drawing of Pachacuti, 1615.

Guaman Poma drawing of Pachacuti, 1615. (Public Domain)

The House of the Sun was Pachacuti’s spiritual control center offering initiated users (trained priests) a broadband connection with several gods; the sun god Inti, the moon goddess Mama Kilya (Quilla), the creator god Viracocha, Venus or Chaska-Qoylor, the god of thunder Illapa, and Cuichu the rainbow god.

From the Coricancha, thousands of ultra-mystical priests controlled the state-wide religion, meditational disciplines, organized great festivals of religious and political power and maintained efficient communication systems, administrative procedures, agricultural, judicial and military functions.

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Ashley Cowie is a researcher, explorer, film-maker and blogger about lost cultures and kingdoms, ancient crafts and arts, the origins of legends and myths, architecture, iconography, artifacts and treasures. He is also author of A Twist in Time: How The Rope Age Made Mankind | Visit AshleyCowie.com

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Top Image: Diagram of the Seqe/Ceke system of Cusco, a believed system of energy lines radiating from Cusco that connected through the cities, shrines, temples and sacred sites of the Incan empire. Planned intricately, the temple of Coricancha sat at the center. (McKay Savage/CC BY 2.0)

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