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Huanacauri
This webpage is named 'huanacauri.com'. Huanacauri is the mythical hill that marks, in stone, the start of the famous Inca Empire. 'Huanacauri' is quechua and means 'rainbow' and this word possibly refers to the cowry-shape of the hill.

El Fuerte de Samaipata
Huanacauri or today’s ‘El Fuerte de Samaipata’ has been constructed in honour of the return of Halley's Comet in the year 1066 AD. The inhabitants of this region saw a comet's tail. It resembled the shape of a spear of staff. Local legends speak of ‘an old man’, as the comet keeps returning for thousands of years, carrying a ‘golden staff’, as it looked golden at sunrise, that could be seen in the entire land. The golden staff or spear being a metaphor for ‘comet’.

Parallel rising of Venus and Jupiter
In the same year Venus and Jupiter rose, on one particular day in august, side-by-side above the horizon: an event that has been carved in the skin of the mountain. Two parallel tracks of El Cascabel point in a certain eastern direction. The sun rose in 'Leo' or, in South-America, in 'Jaguar'.
The meaning of 'El Cascabel' can be translated as 'the back of the (rattle) snake’.
Today a legend is told that, long ago, two people were married on this ancient hill. Look: Venus and Jupiter, female and male!

Garcilaso de la Vega
El Fuerte de Samaipata has been described by the Spanish Chronicler and half-Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In this text he mentions two condors. I have found both the images of the condors in very, very bad shape. The attacking condor was probably designed to frighten the spectators. It is huge and covers the full width of the ancient hill. The second condor is much smaller and can be found just before the old Inca-wall on the place of observation. I believe the shadow of the wall is meant to partly cover this painting. Painting is not the right word because it has been carved out of the bedrock just like the Egyptian Sphinx. Maybe it was once painted but now it is badly eroded.

(Royal Commentaries of the Incas, book five of the first part, Chapter XXIII, p. 292)

“Inca Viracocha was so proud and boastful of his deeds and of the new worship the Indians vouchsafed him that, not content with building this splendid temple, he made another shrine no less ostentatious and magnificent: it was just as pointedly to his father’s discredit as to his own glory, but the Indians say that it was executed only after his father’s death.

This took the form of a painting on a very high pinnacle (mountaintop) among the many rocks which his father stayed when he deserted Cuzco. The painting (image?) was of two birds the Indians called cuntur (Condor), which are so large that many have been found five varas (about 4.23 meters) across from wing-tip to wing-tip.

They are birds of prey and extremely fierce, though Mother Nature has tempered their ferocity by removing their claws: their feet are like those of chickens, but the beak is so sharp and strong that they can rip open the hide of a cow with a single gash, and two such birds will attack and kill a cow like wolves. They are coloured black and white in patches like magpies.

Of the pair of these birds that were painted, one was depicted with its wings closed and its head down, as even fierce birds stand when they want to conceal themselves: it was facing Collasuyu with its back turned to Cuzco.

The other was painted quite differently, with the face boldly turned toward the city and its wings open as if in flight and prepared to swoop on its prey.

The Indians explained that the first cuntur symbolized the Inca’s father who had fled from Cuzco to hide in the Collas, and the second Inca Viracocha who had flown back to defend the city and empire.

The painting still existed in good condition in 1580. In 1592 I asked a Creole priest who had come to Spain from Peru if he had seen it and what state it was in. He replied that it was very faint, and indeed scarcely perceptible at all, having been ruined by weather and water and neglect for the preservation of such antiquities.”

Viracocha
Viracocha is the bearded god of the Inca’s. His face en body can be seen in the features of El Fuerte. The attacking condor represents the beard in the face of Viracocha. His two eyes, Jupiter and Venus, can be found at the foot of the hill. The feature of ‘El Cascabel’ represents a golden chain on the body of the Inca god. And on the imaginary place of his stomach, his centre of power, there once was a fire-place for, when he appeared, mostly at night, as comets do, since the making of the hill in about AD 300, a fire was lit during the night in honour of his apparition and to guide his way through the universe.
The Incas knew Halley’s Comet would return for the oldest ceremonial centre of southern hemisphere is Caral. Constructed in the same time, and probably marking the same impressive apparition of the comet that has been seen in Babylon, Egypt, Britain and China. Viracocha is the universal god as it could have been seen all over the world. Halley’s Comet, a naked eye object, can be watched, under certain conditions all over the world. So it might be no coincidence when, all over the world, in about 3100 BC many religions are expanding…

The oval shape of El Fuerte, identified with Viracocha, could be seen on the eastern wall in the Coricancha, the main temple of the Incas in Cusco.

Atahualpa
Comets have always been related to the death of kings and emperors. Comet Halley was seen 1531 one year before the Spanish conquistadores landed on the Peruvian coast. The Incas believed they were sent by Viracocha because, in the legend, Viracocha was bearded. The Indians had no beards but, and this might have lead to the misunderstanding, a beard is a metaphor for comet and comets were considered ‘bearded’ stars for the tail of the comet (sometimes) looked like a hairy beard. So the relation between the returning ‘bearded star’ or comet in 1531 and the bearded strangers becomes logic. What is also remarkable is that Atahualpa knew he was going to die. The wise men, the Amautas, had warned him. The comet predicted his death in 1533.

Comet Halley
El Cascabel (the back of the snake) is the most important feature of this ancient and UNESCO protected hill. It made a huge impression on me when I visited the hill in 1997. It took me ten years of thinking and reading for I reached my conclusion: El Fuerte is a physical representation of the Inca god Viracocha, the creator god, and this beautiful monument has been carved in his honour. Before the arrival of the Spaniards the Incas did not know what a comet was. They certainly did not know what caused its return. Thanks to the formulated laws of Newton astronomer Edmund Halley was able to predict, for the first time in history, the date of its return.
In the past ancient astronomers certainly knew this comet would return between 75 and 79 years (average 75.9 years) but they were not able to predict its exact apparition. In ancient cultures, all over the world, the apparition of this comet seems to have represented the flight of a soul of a death King, Caesar, Emperor of Pharaoh. In time it will be clear that all religions, in the seed, were based on the same astronomical event. All religions are based on the return and apparition of this special spectacular Great Comet.

Religion
Because all religions seem to have shared the same universal seed why not pacify the earth? ‘Huanacauri’ and the apparitions of a Comet Halley, marked the start and end of the Inca empire. Sadly enough by the Spaniards, whose Catholic religion, seems to have been based on the same astronomical event. For the death of the first Caesar, the divine Julius, has been related to the apparition of a comet…

Gilbert de Jong, 2008