Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru New Age Mysticism Silas is diagnosed with Veil

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Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru New Age Mysticism Silas is diagnosed with VeilWhen the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre Inca period, such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows how