Intihuatana is a ritual stone in South American during the Inca Empire time. Intiuantana was built around 2100-2300 BC. It is located in Machu Picchu, Peru. It has many other primary temples around it. Like the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. It was founded that in 1911 by Bingham. To reach it you have to climb a stairway that is behind the Principal Temple. People believed that the Inca’s religion was blasphemy because of the significance of the architecture.
The design of the Pisca Intiuantana was carved at the top of the pyramid. It is a very odd shape than the other temples around it. It has an upright stone column that tilts at 13 degrees northward. It is made out of granite and all different kinds of rocks. The purpose of building it was to tell time. It was aligned with four important mountains to get the sun’s position during the winter.
It is also a calendar for the Incas. At midday on November 11 and January 30 the sun stands almost above the pillar casting no shadow at all. On June 21 the stone is casting the longest shadow during the year. Researchers studying the clock believe that it was built for a certain reason. It was built as an astronomic clock or a calendar for the Incas. The name of the stone is from the Quechua language.
Intihuatana stone was broken at an Inca shrine; the Inca believed that the deities of the place died or departed. The Incas thought the stone was broken. The Intihuatana stone and its resident sprits remain in their original position today. The Incas would worship their stones because they believe that had spirits to them. The stone was made of granite and rock on top of the mountain.
Intihuatana comes from the inti meaning sun , God, and greatest deity. It’s in the Scared Valley by Machu Picchu. It was built with polished dry-stone walls with three primary structures. Not many people knew about it because it was so high up in the mountains. That is why it took ever for the Intihuatana to be discovered.
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