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010       95034627 
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020    0517594684 
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035    (Sirsi) i0517594684 
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050 00 F3429.3.R3|bS85 1996 
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084    15.85|2bcl 
100 1  Sullivan, William,|d1946- 
245 14 The secret of the Incas :|bmyth, astronomy, and the war 
       against time /|cWilliam Sullivan. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown Publishers,|c[1996] 
264  4 |c©1996 
300    viii, 413 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-402) and 
       index. 
505 0  The myth of prehistory -- The technical language of Andean
       myth -- The descent of history -- The war against time.  
520 1  "'This book is the story of an experiment,' to quote the 
       author (p. 12). Focuses on myth as the key to 
       understanding the Incas' past. Many conclusions differ 
       from those of standard scholarly literature. Some examples
       that run counter to orthodox views on Andean peoples are 
       the notion that Andean myth recounts significant 
       precessional events; the view that the three worlds of 
       Andean cosmology were understood, on one level, as 
       locations on the celestial sphere, united by the Milky 
       Way; and the idea that Andean peoples not only had names 
       for all the planets visible to the unassisted eye, but 
       also associated them with important deities. Uses 
       ethnoastronomical studies of Gary Urton and R. Tom 
       Zuidema"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.|uhttp
       ://www.loc.gov/hlas/ 
650  0 Inca mythology. 
650  0 Inca astronomy. 
650  0 Inca philosophy. 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
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