Salasaka Tapestries - Inka Ñusta

INKA ÑUSTA

Inka Nusta means the Chosen Women, sometime called the Virgins of the Sun, who were carefully trained to made the ceremony of making a "pukara" or a "despacho" an offering for Mother Earth. Her face portrayed as a gold disk from which rays and flames extended in forms of birds. The Sun's powerful energy warms the Mother Earth, which is vital to life and for the production of crops.