Huaca

In parts of highland Peru it is called huaca, the Quechua name for grave, because of the belief that those intoxicated with the plant are able to divine the location of the tombs of their ancestors. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

The most interesting is called the huaca larga, or long temple. ❋ Unknown (2010)

About 100 feet away rose the Inka-era huaca they were about to assault. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The meaning of this name is uncertain; huaca means sacred and willca means either sacred object or, in the Aymaran language spoken east of Cusco, sun. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Two kilometers northeast of Sacsayhuaman is Qenco, an important huaca or shrine. ❋ Unknown (1999)

He then levelled the hill, though it was very large, where that oracle, idol or _huaca_ of the devil stood. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

At these words the _huaca_ turned its head to see who spoke, but, owing to the weight upon it, it could not see. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

At the time of his departure, he made them a celebrated _huaca_ or statue, for them to offer gifts to and worship; to which statue the Incas, in after times, offered many rich gifts of gold and other metals, and above all a golden bench. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

Before they got to the height where the rainbow was, they saw a _huaca_ which was a place of worship in human shape, near the rainbow. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

Presently, when Ayar Uchu wanted to get off he was not able, for he found that the soles of his feet were fastened to the shoulders of the _huaca_. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

He placed doors of gold on the window Ccapac-tocco, and ordered that from that time forward the locality should be venerated by all, making it a prayer place and _huaca_, whither to go to pray for oracles and to sacrifice. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

It enraged him against the oracle, so he called out his guards and went to where the _huaca_ was kept. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

The Aztecs used the word "teotl" to express the name meaning; the Mayas, the word "ku;" the Peruvians, "huaca." ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

Spaniards, the most venerated _huaca_, and the one that received the most offerings of any in the kingdom. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

When Atahualpa arrived at Huamachuco, two principal lords of his house came to offer sacrifice to the _huaca_ of Huamachuco for the success that had attended their cause. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

It seems that the general name among all the Peruvian people, for a sacred object, is huaca. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

They constituted him the _huaca_ of the Incas, giving it the name of Ayar Uchu ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

Cuzco, taking with him the _huaca_ "Cataquilla [118]" of Caxamarca and ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)

One very celebrated huaca, at Chimu, was found to contain an enormous amount of gold vessels. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

Ayar Uchu was to remain as a _huaca_ for the sake of religion. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)