Archaeo-astronomic pre-Hispanic myths in the ancient Peru: the moon in the Andean vision

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ALFREDO Alberdi Vallejo

The conception about the earth satellite in the pre-Hispanic time, in the ancient Peru, is definitely poliformal and poliphasyc in relation to the mythical sexual gender of the celestial bodies. This essay contains some references to the moon in the Huarochiri Manuscript and other colonial documents to enable us to analyze the values of the moon as an archaeo-astronomical myth.

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Moon, Myth, Peru

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Alberdi Vallejo, ALFREDO. “Archaeo-astronomic pre-Hispanic myths in the ancient Peru: the moon in the Andean vision”. Mitologías hoy, 2011, vol.VOL 4, pp. 74-86, https://raco.cat/index.php/mitologias/article/view/283879.