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Cuzco

noun
1.
A town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire.  Synonym: Cusco.






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"Cuzco" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this civilization is traced to the valley of Cuzco, the central region of Peru, as its name implies.7 The origin of the Peruvian empire, like the origin of all nations, except the very few which, like our own, have had the good fortune to date from a civilized period and people, is lost in the mists ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... good policy to collect all the tribal animal gods into their temples in and round Cuzco, in which the two leading gods were the Master of Life, and the Sun.' Did a process of this sort ever occur in Greek religion, and were older animal gods ever collected into the temples of ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang

... legend of the Peruvian Indians, which was told to a Spanish priest in Cuzco about half a century after the conquest, it was in Tiahuanaco that man was first created, or at least was created afresh after the deluge. "There (in Tiahuanaco)," so runs the legend, "the Creator began to raise up the people and nations ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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