Inca Mythology - Important Places

Important Places

Inca cosmology was ordered in three spatio-temporal levels or Pachas. These included:

  • Uku Pacha ("the lower world") was located within the earth's surface.
  • Kay Pacha was the world in which we live.
  • Hanan Pacha ("higher world") was the world above us where the sun and moon lived.

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