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12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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The Inca Creation Story - The Lake of the Andes

This is the largest lake in south america and one of the highest in the world. The city of tianaku held vast pyramid structures and impressive carved gateways cut from solid blocks of stone weighing up to 66 tons. In the inca creation story, we can see the cultural debt they owed to tiwanaku. They believed it was the place where light was first brought to the world, when before there had been only darkness.

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