(Please read from the start)
Before I move on, I want to talk a bit about something I noticed. On the representation of the Staff-god on the gateway of the sun in Tiwanaku, I talked about the bird of prey heads that might be rivers flowings – represented on the podium (pages 359 to 361).
As previously seen in this thread, the Staff-god is thought to have first appeared in Tiwanaku. The Incas adopted the Staff-god as a deity in their own pantheon and called him Viracocha. What troubled me back then was the number of eagles (= birds of prey) represented on the podium of the Staff-god on the gateway of the sun of Tiwanaku.
4 standing upright, and 2 on each side, kinda flowing down. As I’ve said before, these might be sun rays or representing rivers, mostly the flowing motion of the long body of the side eagles. But there is also a possibility, this might have another meaning, more like a symbolic meaning, where these eagles represent people.
Since the Incas adopted a lot from the Tiwanaku culture and kinda mix it, blend it into their own, the possibility is that the 4 brothers and the 4 sisters from the legend/myth of the Ayars is an Incas adaptation or an Incas remix of an older story taken from the Tiwanaku culture and at it’s center was the Staff-god. The possibility is there, but it’s not confirmed. We need to find evidence, like artifacts that can support this possibility. It’s not even a theory. The only additional clue I’ve got is the Staff itself, held by the Staff-god and the brother whom founded Cusco = Manco Capac. The difference between the 2 is that the Staff-god was holding 2 Staffs while Manco Capac was only holding one. It’s unclear what happened to the second staff. And doesn’t that truly make the Ayars the children of the Sun deity if they are linked someway to the Staff-god?
Do not forget the winged helpers of the Staff-god on the gateway of the sun. What if the Ayars were 4 of those whom migrated from Tiwanaku? Remember how ONE of the Ayar brothers grew wings and flew to survey the area so they can find a good location to found a new settlement = Cusco? We already know that people migrated out of Tiwanaku for an unknown reason but we also know that there were already settlers = people already living in Cusco, so it’s better not to rush into this. It’s inconclusive with what I’ve got about it for now. All I can say it’s connected somehow, but I don’t know how.
This is a foggy and slippery possibility with fragile ground….for now…until more evidence is dug up supporting it or completely rejecting it. It’s better to have additional information before leaning in or out of this.
Let’s continue where I left off about the Incas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire
“Economy
The Inca Empire employed central planning. The Inca Empire traded with outside regions, although they did not operate a substantial internal market economy. While axe-monies were used along the northern coast, presumably by the provincial mindaláe trading class, most households in the empire lived in a traditional economy in which households were required to pay taxes, usually in the form of the mit'a corvée labor, and military obligations, though barter (or trueque) was present in some areas. In return, the state provided security, food in times of hardship through the supply of emergency resources, agricultural projects (e.g. aqueducts and terraces) to increase productivity and occasional feasts. While mit'a was used by the state to obtain labor, individual villages had a pre-inca system of communal work, known as mink'a. This system survives to the modern day, known as mink'a or faena. The economy rested on the material foundations of the vertical archipelago, a system of ecological complementarity in accessing resources and the cultural foundation of ayni, or reciprocal exchange.”
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