Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-03-24
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streets and thousands of skulls whiten the sur
rounding sands, grewsome reminders of the null
utude who formerly lived and worshiped at these
ruined shriaes
Peru has few merely tourist visitors and of
these fewer still see Pachacamac the trip from
Lima being considered long and hard. But for
one accustomed to the saddle land little of South
America can be otherwise seem Pachacamac is
comfortably accessible.
The simplest route is by thu excellent electric
cars to the pretty suburb Che los beyond Mira
nores, where horses should ave been ordered
IN advance to await the traveer
over roadside walls of mud or adobe brick
Wlld nasturtiums Chamber In riot OF color; bare,
high hills rise at side; the battlefield Of San
Juan famous in the Chilean war, and here and
there populous haciendas passed before the
open country is reached mile or two of Jungle
IKE swamp follows. rich In interest for lovers
Oh birds and growing things. But beyond this
fertile tangle one may canter along the hard sand
beach for nearly all the remaining miles Sea
birds in such myriads that the sun is actually
darkened as they fly up at approach seven
or eigh; lines of superb Pacific rollers breaking
in thunderous surf, a rampant of high sand noun
tains Just back of the beach-and in two or three
hours appear the familiar walls and dun-colored
remains OF Inca occupation.
For Pachacamac has been the scene of sew
eral superimposed civilizations, whereby its
study Is rendered more confusing than that of
other ancient shrines, The many graves and
their contents We're seemingly at variance
chronolcgically inconsstent-with fragments OF
pottery and implements found near by But II
is certain that pre-Inca Indians had here their
chief temple, and that when these all-conquerng
mobiles With their hordes OF willing workers ar
rived triumphantly upon the scene, so far from
trying TO wipe out the old faith they treated II
with much respect, perhaps from prudential mo-
dves, building their great temple TO the sun on
the hill above but still permitting even encour-
aging. continued worship of the creator god Pac
hacamac, so that the temples religious prestige
did not suffer under the Incas
The Sun temple seems to have been built to
include this earlier sanctuary. which shows an
amcaole relationship between the older cult and
that worship OF the which the Incas ultimate
ly imposed on conquered tribes
A beautiful site these early jewellers chose for
their rites. Although desert bounded on north
and east, the temples themselves set in sand by
whose encroaching drifts they are now half GOV.
cred toward the west rolls the blue Pacific and
southwark lies the green and fertile Valley Of
Lurin. watered by its river OF the same name
OF whose mouth rise rugged islands the wings
OF myriad sea birds flashing in the sunshine as
they dip and circle and soar about the lofty
ellis
Only 2'2 miles wide at the coast the little Iu-
rn valley narrows rapidly toward the interior.
4 mile and half distant lies the village on the
sslne side Of the river the ruins Only 500
l@.aetal's now belong here, but perhaps 2 900
CIR be counted in the whole parish Modern Pac.
Aa-amac holds about 300. its parish 5000 Trees
't m7oy kinds abound--the willow (Salix) al.
NsEs prominent with cane (canillo) and trees
bearing the chirimoya, palta lucuma and other