Hatun Mayu / The River of the Spirits
Across the Andes, the old civilizations lived in tune with the Cosmos, The night sky in this highlands was their best instrument for keeping track of the cycles of Time.
In fact they were obsessed about the movement of the stars, in such a way that it dictated everyday life, when to grow food, when to celebrate, when to start again.
Trough their astronomical observatories the Incas, and many others before them, observed meticulously the changes in the sky. The ingenious of this people made them build reservoirs of calm waters where they could see the reflection of the night sky.
The Milky Way was the celestial map for tracking the movements of the planets and the constellations. Trough the massive darkness of the Great Rift, the dark nebulae that seems to divide the bright clouds of our galaxy, they saw animals like the fox, the llama, the frog and build stories around this characters in the form of myths.
The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
