# Inca Religion · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Canon · No. 065
Inca Religion
Tawantinsuyu state religion
c.1200 – 1572 CE · Indigenous American · Living · Andes — Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1200 CE Manco Capac; the Cusco kingdom founded.
- 1438 CE Pachacuti begins the imperial expansion; Coricancha rebuilt and sheathed in gold.
- c.1450 CE Machu Picchu built as a royal estate.
- 1527–1532 CE Smallpox, arriving ahead of the Spanish, kills the emperor Huayna Capac and his heir; civil war follows.
- <strong>1532 CE</strong> Pizarro captures Atahualpa at Cajamarca with fewer than 200 men, against an empire of perhaps ten million. Disease and civil war had already broken it.
- 1533 CE Atahualpa executed after the ransom room is filled with gold.
- 1536–1572 CE The Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba resists; Túpac Amaru is executed in 1572.
- 1559–1660s CE Extirpation of idolatry campaigns systematically destroy huacas and mummies.
- 1560s CE Taki Onqoy, the dancing sickness — a revitalisation movement teaching that the huacas would defeat the Christian God and expel the Spanish. Suppressed.
- 1780–82 CE Túpac Amaru II's rebellion.
- 1911 CE Hiram Bingham publicises Machu Picchu.
- Present Andean Catholicism is a genuine synthesis: mountain apus and Christian saints occupy the same ritual landscape, and Pachamama offerings are ordinary public practice.
### Sources
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