The Incas paid an enormous ransom in gold to free their captured emperor Atahualpa from Pizarro — and the Spanish executed him anyway in 1533. The Inca Empire was the largest in pre-Columbian America, stretching from Colombia to Chile, with a religion centered on the sun god Inti, a creator named Viracocha, and a still-revered Earth Mother, Pachamama. Their cosmology divided the universe into three realms — the upper, the middle, and the lower — connected by the Andean Cross.
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You'll cover Inti, Mama Killa, Viracocha, Pachamama, the Coricancha temple in Cusco, the layout of Tahuantinsuyu, Machu Picchu, the Inca Cross, the capacocha child sacrifices on Andean peaks, the Sapa Inca rulers, and the conquistador Pizarro's defeat of Atahualpa.
Inti is the sun god and the most important deity in the Inca pantheon. The Sapa Inca (emperor) was considered the son of Inti, and the festival of Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) was the most important religious celebration of the empire.
Pachamama is the Earth Mother in Andean and Inca cosmology, a goddess of fertility, harvests, and the natural world. She is still actively venerated today in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and northwestern Argentina, where offerings of coca leaves and chicha are made to her.
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Andes mountains of Peru, about 2,430m above sea level in the Cusco region. Built around 1450 under Pachacuti, it was rediscovered for the wider world by Hiram Bingham in 1911 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Last updated: May 2026