Manco Capac and the Golden Staff — Andean & Amazonian (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel high into the Andes, in Peru, to the shore of Lake Titicaca, where the water sits so high in the mountains that the sky seems to begin at your feet. The Sun sends down a brother and a sister with one thing between them — a rod of gold no longer than your forearm — and one instruction: drive it into the ground wherever you stop, and build your city where it sinks in at a single blow. What follows is a very long walk north, and a great many evenings when the ground says no.
Source & tradition: Inca tradition of the Andes, still living Quechua heritage in Peru and Bolivia. This…
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