Talk:Inca mythology

All the articles in the list seem to be one sentence articles. Recommend merging with this article. --Hemanshu 17:26, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I would agree as well. Have them all merged into one. If someone writes sufficient content for an entry, it can have its own page. No one seems to want to add more than one sentence for them. Almost all of them are currently stubs. Existing articles can be re-directed to this page after merging. RedWolf 06:50, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

I moved this page to Inca mythology and added some content from the Manco Capac page. Zenyu 15:17, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any particular reasoning for why most of the deities merged into the "minor deities" section were merged here instead of left to their own articles. It seems that the main criterion for determining "minor" is how much text the deity has currently written, rather than how major the deity was in Inca religion. Also, merging all of those deities makes it impossible to use categorization schemes on the Inca deities (for example, Category:Deities by association). I'm going to revert the articles that were merged into this one unless anyone objects. -Sean Curtin 04:01, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

I'm researching the dieties now, but all of those articles were possible candidates for deletion. Please write proper articles for them if you believe they need them or place them in the Wiki dictionary. Zenyu 14:02, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Just because an article is short isn't grounds for deletion. Containing incorrect information is, though it's easier to correct or remove the false data. -Sean Curtin 01:00, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Sean posted this comment before I had moved the "Incan mythology" talk page over Zenyu 13:45, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Please don't move the contents of pages by cut-and-pasting text; it makes it very difficult to look at its actual edit history. See meta:Help:Renaming (moving) a page. -Sean Curtin 01:00, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Incan "books"

Incans didn't have a written language. They did have some sort of knotted cord records, called Khipus [1]. There is currently a theory put forward by Gary Urton that the Khipus represented a binary record keeping system capable of recording phonological or logographic data. Many of these Khipus were distroyed by the Spanish. Very few still remain. (Sam_Spade | talk | contributions) 18:37, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Inca did have picture books, these were destroyed as well; there was a priest who described one of these in detail, but his name escapes me a the moment. As for the khipus there are about 100 that have survived, the conquistadors were not able to capture anyone that could read them. Some of the surviving khipus may be Huari ones though. There are accounts of Inca historians using khipus to tell the Spanish priests about Inca history, and Guaman Poma says they were used for the census and in administering taxes and welfare payments. FYI the knowledge we have on the Inca religions is based mostly on missionary manuals written by the church to help convert Quechuas. --Zenyu 22:42, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

I don't know much about it, I have a buddy who is a linguistics major and is reletively fluent in Quechua, I was pretty much quoting him in what I said. Interesting stuff tho, too bad so much info was lost. (Sam_Spade | talk | contributions) 22:51, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)