The Incas used for the administration of Cuzco, the capital of their empire, and its valley a system of 41 directions, called ceque, as viewed from their central temple of the Sun. This system registered their concerns with space, including ritual space, hierarchy, and time, the latter in the form of a detailed calendaralmanac of weekly, monthly, seasonal, and yearly activities. From Inca times are also preserved some textiles that represent different regular calendars concerning the sun, moon, and stars. Detailed ethnohistoric evidence allows the reconstruction of the Ceque calendar-almanac.
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Zuidema, R. T. (2015). Ceque system of cuzco: A yearly calendar-almanac in space and time. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 851–864). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_80
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