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The History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas

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In the year 1572, the Spanish chronicler Sarmiento de Gamboa completed one of the vital earliest official versions of the history of the Inka empire. In his account, he stated that the ancestors of the Inkas originated from a cave at a spot to the south of the imperial city of Cuzco known as Pacariqtambo. The History of a Myth explores how and why this version of the origin myth (there have been others) came to form the foundation of an official history.

Using a legal document from the 1560s, Urton finds how the Pacariqtambo origin myth allowed remaining members of the Inka nobility to say descent from the primary Inkas and revel in special status with their Spanish conquerors. This discovery offers new insight into the social and political factors that resolve what becomes “the facts” of history. It also emphasizes the ambiguities inherent in history writing when the informants are the conquered subjects of the authors.

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