What religion were the Inca's?

Answer 1

The Inca worshipped the dead, ancestors, founding culture heroes, their king whom they regarded as divine, nature and its cycles. The worship of nature and its cycles suggest that for them time and space were sacred, and consequently the calendar was religious and each month had its own festival. The most important cult was directed to Inti the god sun who nourished the earth and man with his rays. The most important feast was the one dedicated to Inti, called IntipRaimi. This rich ceremony, with its splendid costumes, and gold and silver offerings and decoration, was opened by the Inca emperor, his family and the curaca. After the opening the emperor made a libation to the sun and drank chicha (a maize drink) with his family, then led a procession, followed by every one into the sun temple, where the imperial family made offerings of precious vessels or images to the god. Following this, omens were read and llamas were sacrificed. The ceremony ended with eating and drinking.

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Answer 2

The Inca's believed in Sun Gods.

Answer 3

There were many local forms of worship, but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of the Pachamama, or Mother Earth. Because the sun was very important in Inca mythology, there is a common misbelief that the foremost god was the Inti or sun god.

Answer 4

The belief system of the Incas was polytheistic, with Inti, the Sun God, was the most important god, and believed to be the direct ancestor of the Sapa Inca, the title of the hereditary rulers of the empire.

The Inca civilization built many temples to their deities. The best-known Inca temples include the Sun Temple in Cuzco, the temple at Vilcashuaman, the Aconcagua (the highest mountain in South America) and the Temple of the Sun at Isla del Sol. The Inca built the Sun Temple in Cuzco from exquisitely matched and joined stones. It had a circumference of over 1200 feet, and housed a great image of the sun. One part of the temple, the Qoricancha ("Golden Enclosure"), held gold models of cornstalks, llamas and lumps of earth. Portions of the Incas' land were allotted to the sun and administered for the priests.

Huacas, or sacred sites, were widespread around the Inca Empire. Huacas were deific entities that resided in natural objects such as mountains, boulders, streams, battle fields, other meeting places, and any type of place that was connected with past Incan rulers. Spiritual leaders in a community would use prayer and offerings to communicate with a huaca for advice or assistance.

Animal sacrifices accompanied many important Inca occasions. Each day witnessed many sacrifices to celebrate the sun's appearance. Human sacrifice occurred in times of natural disaster, other great times of distress, and important occasions; children were often sacrificed. In order for a child to be sacrificed, the child had to be perfect, and be free of any blemishes. Usually the finest young children were taken from each village to Cuzco to meet the emperor, and were then taken to the highest mountains and were then sacrificed, most often with a blow to the head. The children were elaborately adorned with fine clothing, and jewelry. This process left many mummies. While most victims died violently, scientists have occasionally found victims who died slowly due to the freezing temperature. The Spanish missionaries often reported child sacrifice, called "capacocha", but until the 1980's there was no physical evidence to support this

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Answer 5

Doctrines The Inca worshipped the dead, ancestors, founding culture heroes, their king whom they regarded as divine, nature and its cycles. The worship of nature and its cycles suggest that for them time and space were sacred, and consequently the calendar was religious and each month had its own festival. The most important cult was directed to Inti the god sun who nourished the earth and man with his rays. The most important feast was the one dedicated to Inti, called IntipRaimi. This rich ceremony, with its splendid costumes, and gold and silver offerings and decoration, was opened by the Inca emperor, his family and the curaca. After the opening the emperor made a libation to the sun and drank chicha (a maize drink) with his family, then led a procession, followed by every one into the sun temple, where the imperial family made offerings of precious vessels or images to the god. Following this, omens were read and llamas were sacrificed. The ceremony ended with eating and drinking.

Answer 6

The belief system of the Incas was polytheistic, with Inti, the Sun God, was the most important god, and believed to be the direct ancestor of the Sapa Inca, the title of the hereditary rulers of the empire.

Answer 7

Didn't the Inca build a powerful empire in southern asia? I think that is correct, well the religion is polytheistic since they believe in the sun god Inti, who was the main god. Also, they believe that you can live beyond after you are dead, depending on your behavior (karma). Also it an agricultural society, so they believe what they do would affect how the gods would treat them. They make life sacrafices daily, and believe the blood that flow from them, would help how their crops grow.

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Answer 8

The Inca worshipped the dead, ancestors, founding culture heroes, their king whom they regarded as divine, nature and its cycles.

Answer 9

According to the Book of Mormon, They were descendants of Lehi and his group that left Jerusalem. They were Jews.

Answer 10

They worshiped a giant winged serpent called Coetzecoatl (not sure of the spelling)