The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca
were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A
pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun
and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual
journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and
Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands
as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and
developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca
region.
Drawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test
excavations in the islands, as well as data from historical texts
and ethnography, the authors document a succession of complex
polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European
contact in the 1530s AD. They uncover significant evidence of
pre-Inca ritual use of the islands, which raises the compelling
possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of
great antiquity. The authors also use these data to address broader
anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the
development of pre-modern states.
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