IamNoMan
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The Andean worldview considers nature and people as a whole, a whole in which they both live related to each other in perpetuity. Legends say that the condor never dies.When it is old, they claim, it returns to its nest in order to be reborn. Others say that when its strength wanes it flies to the highest mountain peak, folds its wings, pulls in its feet and lets itself fall down to the depths of the canyons where it ends its days.
Traditions tell that the Incas left Machu Picchu before the arrival of the Spanish because they saw a condor fall dead in the house of the Sun Virgins. This was interpreted as an omen that announced the destruction of Tawantinsuyo, the Inca Empire, they say,because the condor was and is the messenger from the world above. It is the messenger of the gods.
Traditions tell that the Incas left Machu Picchu before the arrival of the Spanish because they saw a condor fall dead in the house of the Sun Virgins. This was interpreted as an omen that announced the destruction of Tawantinsuyo, the Inca Empire, they say,because the condor was and is the messenger from the world above. It is the messenger of the gods.
