THE INCA ALEXANDER

How Topa Inca Yupanqui built on the conquests of his forebears and expanded his empire

Hareth Al Bustani

In the mid-15th century, at the height of his powers, the mighty emperor Pachacuti returned to Cusco to discover his wife-sister had bore him a new son. Although he had older legitimate sons, he sensed something special in this boy. As he raised him towards the almighty Sun, he proclaimed the boy Topa Inca Yupanqui. It was an auspicious occasion, one the emperor marked by offering vast quantities of gold and silver to the Sun god Inti, the oracles and the sacred stones known as the huacas. In the most extravagant festival the Inca had ever seen, he undertook an epic capac hucha ceremony, where a procession of children toured Cusco before being sacrificed. Years later, as the elderly emperor felt his vigour fade, he decided it was time to…

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