Machu Picchu is full of buildings that exhibit the masonry skill of the Inca people. But off in a corner, at one of the quarries, you can see the genesis, not only of that skill, but also of their worship of the stones themselves. You see evidence of the precise stone cutting, but also the tableaux of the earth, the stone, and the sky that is the essence of the Inca spirituality.
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