Talk:Inca religion

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Contents 1 haha 2 Needs work 3 Need help adding a cite 4 Mummification, wiki formatting sins and anthropomorphism

[edit] haha

== Is there a reason that this page does not use the usual English name Inca? (—Charles P. ^(Mirv) forgot to sign this.)

It does now. If anyone decides to move it back to Tawantinsuyu, Religion, an explanation would be appreciated. —Charles P. ^(Mirv) 16:03, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Needs work

Just underlining that this article needs work, if anyone has the time (unfortunately, I don't at the moment). It has a lot in common with Inca mythology, and there is good introductory material on religion in Inca Empire that could be integrated into the intro to this article. There is also an article called Inti. Perhaps some merging work is in order? Dunno. Mona-Lynn 15:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The Inca-related articles in general are in need of attention. When I have some time in a few weeks I hope to improve them, possibly using some material from their Spanish counterparts, which, in general, seem more thorough. bcasterline t 16:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need help adding a cite

I've added a cites to a book I'm reading on the subject (by Von Hagen), but I've never done cites on Wikipedia before, so someone probably needs to clean them up. I'm not sure the economic part is totally relevant to this subject, but as long as someone was talking about all the Socialist trademarks of the society in this topic, I wanted to counter-balance it with one very NON-Socialist trademark: totally free marketplaces. Another interesting factoid (also from Von Hagen) to stick somewhere might be that they had no currency, but that's DEFINITELY not relevant to this topic. :-)

[edit] Mummification, wiki formatting sins and anthropomorphism

From the article:

"In order for a child to be designated, he had to be perfect, and be free of any blemishes. Usually the finest young children were taken from each village to Cuzco to meet the emperor, and were then taken to the highest mountains and then sacrificed, most often with a blow to the head. The children were elaborately adorned with fine clothing, and jewelry. This process left mummies..."

Nothing in this passage in any way describes the process by which mummification occurs. The "process" left corpses, which due to environment and burial procedures became mummified.

The rest of the section was typed by someone who doesn't understand how to format a paragraph, and it just looks darned sloppy. The deprecated XHTML "<br />", is not proper form here for breaking a line. Paragraphs are to be separated by a blank line, something done with a paragraph tag ("<p>") if you insist upon using HTML, not a linebreak. You should be using wiki formatting, not X/HTML. See Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout and Help:Editing for help.

A "day" is a period of time. It is not a sentient being, and it cannot "witness" anything. To state otherwise is "waxing poetic", and is not the proper tone for an encyclopedia article. 12.22.250.4 18:19, 4 September 2007 (UTC)