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poisonous plants

strangler figs

and theories on Inca stonework

variety of rain forest plants

Plateriayoc

Plaza de Armas

polar explorers

Polo, Marco

Potosi

Prescott, William

Princeton University

Principal Temple

Progressive Era

Pumasillo Range

Punahou School

Puquiura

Quechua culture

Quechua language

Quillabamba

Quito

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Raimondi, Antonio

Reinhard, Johan

religions of Peru. See also Catholicism; mysticism and spirituality

Republican Party

A Residence of Twenty-one Years

in the Sandwich Islands

(Bingham)

Rice, Hamilton

Richarte family

Romero, Carlos

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elihu

Rosaspata

Royal Geographical Society

Royal Mausoleum

Royal Tomb

Saavedra

Sacred Center theory

Sacred Plaza

Sacred Valley

Sacred Virgins of the Sun

Sacsahuaman

Sailing Alone Around the World (Slocum)

Salazar, Lucy

Salcantay

San Andrés Hospital

San Francisco Chronicle

Santa Ana hacienda

Santa Maria

Santa Teresa

Santo Domingo monastery

Sapa Inca. See also specific rulers

and celestial orientation of Inca sites

and Cusco

and the Inca empire

and Inca pantheism

rights as ruler

and sun worship

and Vitcos

Savoy, Gene

Saw Mill

Sayacmarca

Sayri Tupac

Scott, Robert Falcon

Scribner’s Magazine

Secret of the Incas (1954)

Semicircular Temple

Shakur, Afeni

Shakur, Tupac

Shining Path

Sixpac Manco hostel

skeletal remains

and Eaton

at Machu Picchu

at Patallacta

and trepanation

and Virgins of the Sun theory

Slocum, Joshua

smallpox

Smith, Hugh M.

Smith, Huntington “Coot,” Jr.

Smithsonian Institution

smuggling

snakes

solstice lines

and connection between Inca sites

and constellations

and the Enigmatic Window

and the Inca Trail trip

and Llactapata

and Machu Picchu

and Patallacta

and Sayacmarca

and spiritual tourism

and usnus

soroche (altitude sickness)

South American Explorer club

South American Explorer Magazine

South Pole expeditions

Southern Cross

Spanish-American War

Spanish conquest of Peru. See also conquistadores

Spielberg, Steven

spiritual significance of Inca sites. See mysticism and spirituality

Stanley, Henry

Sterling Memorial Library

stonework of Inca sites

Choquequirao

Cusco

and INC reconstruction work

Intihuatana shrines

Llactapata

Machu Picchu

strangler figs

strikes

Suchli, Justo

and anniversary of Bingham’s trip

on apus

and Choquequirao

daily hiking routine

and Espiritu Pampa

and Huancacalle

and Inca Trail trip

and Kolpacasa Pass

and Llactapata

and muleteer injury

and offerings to Pachamama

preparations for trip

and Puquiura

and Santa Teresa

and Sixpac Manco hostel

and start of trip

and superstition

and Valentin farm

and Yanama camp

Sumac, Yma

Sun Gate

Sun Temple

sun worship

sundials

Taft, William Howard

Tampu Tocco

and Bingham’s expeditions

and creation myth

and the Inca Trail

and Machu Picchu theories

Tawantinsuyu

Taylor, Frederick

Temple of the Condor

Temple of the Sun

Temple of the Three Windows

terraces

and agriculture

and Espiritu Pampa

and Llactapata

and Machu Picchu

and Ollantaytambo

and Patallacta

and Vitcos

Thompson, Hugh

Tiffany, Charles

Time

Tincochaca

Titu Cusi

Toledo, Alejandro

Torreon

and Bingham’s expeditions

and celestial orientation of Inca sites

and Machu Picchu

and Patallacta

trains to Machu Picchu

treasure hunting. See also huaqueros (grave robbers); looting

and Berns

and Bingham’s second expedition

and Choquequirao

and Columbus

and the conquistadores

Efrain on

and Espiritu Pampa

and Indiana Jones character

and Lake Titicaca

and museum collections

and Vitcos

trepanation

tunki (bird)

Tupac Amaru

Tupac Amaru II,

Two Years Before the Mast (Dana)

ukuku masks

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Urton, Gary

Urubamba River

and the Berns land claim

and celestial orientation of Inca sites

and the Inca Trail

and Lost City theories

proximity to Machu Picchu

and routes to Machu Picchu

Urubamba Valley

usnu platforms

Valcárcel, Luis

Valley