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- Peru Guide
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History of Peru
Before your eyes, the history of Peru reveals the long and painful process by which two great cultures challenged each other and finally produced a new cycle in the cultural evolution. Imperial Spain and the Incan empire have long since disappeared, but modern Peru (child of the two) today stands confidently on the threshold of the future.
The Crying Llama
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesThe world almost ended long time ago. The seas rose, and the people of the earth were lost forever in the swirling waters - not all the people, fortunately, one man was saved. This is how it happen...
The Legend of Viracocha
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesViracocha the great creator god in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology was the one that created the universe, sun, moon, stars, time and civilization itself. He also created mankind by breathing into s...
The Rod of Gold
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesThe legend of the Rod of Gold is a beautiful story about the origins and the foundation of the city of Cusco that became the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th-century...
Mayta Capac
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesMayta Capac was the fourth Sapa Inca (ruler and governor of the Inca Kingdom). This legend gives us an insight about his youth and his fierce personality winning many battles fighting the enemies o...
The Vanishing Bride
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesViracocha is the great creator god in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology. He was one of the most important gods and seen as the creator of all things, or the substance from which all things are create...
A Messenger in Black
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesInca Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca (ruler and governor of the Inca Kingdom from 1493–1524). There are many theories about his death and the most common version is that he died from a feve...
The Oracle at Huamachuco
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesThe Inca Atahualpa mentioned in this legend was the last Inca Emperor. After defeating his brother, Atahualpa became briefly the last Sapa Inca (ruler and governor of the Inca Kingdom) before the S...
The Llama Herder and the Daughter of the Sun
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesAlong the slopes of the snow-capped peak called Sahuasiray, high above the valley of the Yucay River, there lived a native Indian of the Lare tribe, called Acoynapa, a handsome and most charming yo...
Utca Paucar
Peruvian Legends, Myths & TalesThese things happened a long time ago, how long no one knows. Some say the story goes back to the days of the Inca empire. Others believe it is even older. On the slopes of a great mountain stood t...
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