Huaca

Huaca is a Quechua word, and the Moche didn´t speak Quechua.

huanchaco, day three 2006

Huaca is a Quechua word, and the Moche didn´t speak Quechua.

Archive 2006-05-01 2006

But the mountain is called Huaca-yuan; and instead of women the beings who brought the food were macaws.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

The most amazing thing about the Huaca is that much of the original brightly coloured paint is still intact, because it was buried in adobe and sand for hundreds of years.

Archive 2006-05-01 2006

The most amazing thing about the Huaca is that much of the original brightly coloured paint is still intact, because it was buried in adobe and sand for hundreds of years.

huanchaco, day three 2006

On an arid plain in a valley in northern Peru, the site of Moche is dominated by two enormous stepped platforms known as the Huaca de la Luna and the Huaca del Sol, or the Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun.

Grim Rites of the Moche 2002

"These irregularities were undoubtedly produced by mechanical causes, and were considered as the _distinctive marks of families_; for in one Huaca [cemetery] will always be found the same form of crania; while in another, near by, the forms are entirely different from those in the first."

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Late in the evening of the second day they arrived at Huaca, and were advised to go to the priest's house, as the accommodation at the inn was so bad.

The Treasure of the Incas 1867

The pass starts from a spot about fifteen miles above the junction, and goes up to Huaca, a place that is little more than ten miles south of

The Treasure of the Incas 1867

They had great difficulty in getting away from Huaca, where the good priest made them extremely comfortable, and was very loath to let them go.

The Treasure of the Incas 1867