Cusco
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Sep 12, 2026
Fulcrum DjediGUEST
There was even huge rock formations that would take the impression of dragons, and it would hold kind of a crystalline dragon energy.
Fulcrum DjediGUEST
After that, I left Bolivia and r- and went up to Peru, and during... or while I was in the Sacred Valley, I was in a collectivo, which is kind of like a minibus going to Cusco, and I kind of picked up, like psychically out of the window, that there was a dragon kind of, like, whisping past, yellow dragon just kind of flying in the air.
Fulcrum DjediGUEST
So obviously, they, like... you see them moving, but they... it's a different... w- like, it's, it's kind of like swimming in the sky is kind of how I describe it.
Jeff MaraHOST
Even in ancient Armenia, there's a historical person named Vahagn, and he's known as the dragon slayer.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
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Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Chapter 17, Machu Picchu It was in July 1911 that we first entered that marvelous canyon of the Urubamba, where the river escapes from the cold regions near Cusco by tearing its way through gigantic mountains of granite.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
From Toronto to Colpani, the road runs through a land of matchless charm.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
It has the majestic grandeur of the Canadian Rockies, as well as the startling beauty of the Nuanupali near Honolulu, and the enchanting vistas of the Colauditch Trail on Mau.
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Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
The apparently rectangular blocks are not really rectangular.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
The apparently straight lines of the courses are not actually straight in the exact sense of that term.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
To my astonishment, I saw that this wall and its adjoining semicircular temple over the cave were as fine as the finest stonework in the far-famed Temple of the Sun in Cusco.
Hernán IbarraNARRATOR
Surprise followed surprise in bewildering succession.
speaker_7HOST
Right.
speaker_7HOST
We are in Cusco, Peru.
speaker_7HOST
This was the capital of the Inca Empire.
speaker_7HOST
And by the 13th century, this was the center of one of the absolute largest, most sophisticated pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas.
speaker_7NARRATOR
The unfinished obelisk of Aswan, still fused to the quarry floor, shows an attempt at a single stone that would have dwarfed almost anything ever erected.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Had it not cracked during extraction, cross the Atlantic to the Andes, and you encounter another branch of the same puzzle, at Sacsayhuaman above Cusco, and in sites like Olantaytambo, walls of interlocking polygonal blocks rise without mortar.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Some stones tip the scales at over 100 tons, cut and fit so closely you can't slide a razor blade between them.
Josh TurekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I ended up missing about 50% of the votes in the Iowa legislature this year.
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speaker_7NARRATOR
Baalbek leaves you mostly stone.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Head to the other side of the planet, and you meet a different branch of the same problem, the Andes.
speaker_7NARRATOR
At places like Saquaman above Cusco, Olontaytambo in the Sacred Valley, and the precincts around Cusco itself, you see some of the most mind-bending stone fitting on earth.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Giant andesite and diorite blocks, some weighing dozens of tons, shaped into elaborate polygons, faces with gentle curves, interlocking offsets so that one stone keys into another in three dimensions, joints so tight that for centuries people have repeated the line about you can't fit a knife blade between them.
speaker_0HOST
The faces are slightly convex, the edges are carefully worked, the small gaps between much larger stones are filled with small keystone-like inserts.
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That combination is immediately familiar if you've studied the megalithic masonry of Cusco and other sites in Peru.
speaker_0HOST
Similar construction techniques appear in megalithic walls in other parts of the world as well.
speaker_0HOST
Archaeologists have acknowledged the resemblance between Vanapu and Indian stonework for more than a century.
speaker_0HOST
Ancient Greeks called Delphi the navel of the earth.
speaker_0HOST
Jewish tradition similarly placed Jerusalem and Mount Zion at the sacred center of the world.
speaker_0HOST
Inca tradition remembers Cusco as the organizing center of the four quarters of the empire and in La Vegas account, the navel of the earth.
speaker_0HOST
Again, these similarities do not prove anything by themselves, but they are worth considering as we think about how deep the history of Easter Island may actually go.
Matt DoylePANELIST
I can do this.
David GassHOST
You... [laughs] Are, are you prepped? The, uh, uh, Santi Rodriguez was in Cusco the week before I got there and lost six to one-
Matt DoylePANELIST
Mm
David GassHOST
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Juan NaulaNARRATOR
On the afternoon of the 6th of August, Bolívar defeated the previously invincible General José de Canterac at the Battle of Junín, a fierce skirmish decided by the superiority of the Colombian cavalry.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The demoralized royalists fled back to their stronghold in Cuzco, leaving behind valuable supplies in the process.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Upon learning of Cantarac's defeat, the Spanish evacuated Lima for the last time.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
By October, as bad weather prevented further campaigning, Bolívar resolved to return to Lima to re-establish his authority in the capital, leaving Sucre in charge of the army.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
It can be born of the arts, music, food, and sometimes politics and strife.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
This is The Culture Report, and I have the wonderful pleasure to chat with the tour guide that I had in the Cusco region of Peru on my trip, and we all fell in love with her.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
Her name is Yashira Bejar.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
We affectionately call her Yashi, and she gave us such a wonderful experience in Peru that I wanted to share that with you, the Cusco and the Andean culture.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
Hello, Yashi, and welcome to Traveling Culturati.
Yashira BejarGUEST
Hello.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
Well, we had such a wonderful time with you when we were there, and you were such a great ambassador in sharing your culture.
Ja'Vonne HarleyHOST
And we could really tell how much you love your culture, and that's what made us fall in love with your culture.
Fabian CousleyGUEST
For the scenario of reflection, right, reflection, I believe that trip to Machu Picchu was more of the most healing because...
Fabian CousleyGUEST
To get to Machu Picchu, you have to fly into Peru, and then you have to take another flight to Cusco, which is a different area.
Fabian CousleyGUEST
It's an hour and a half or two-hour flight, right? And then from there, you have to spend the night, and you have to take the train in the morning, like a two-hour train ride, to the mountains of Machu Picchu.
Fabian CousleyGUEST
And then you have to take a Machu Picchu train that goes up to the base of the mountain.
Mike SiegelHOST
right next to that mcdonald's that's where caesar got his big max
Ryando SmithmanGUEST
you know it's funny you say that because cusco that there's uh have you been to cusco peru at all
Mike SiegelHOST
yes yeah i have
Ryando SmithmanGUEST
there's a in the main plaza there you know you'll see the old spanish architecture and whatever and then there's a starbucks and you're like oh It's kind of funny.
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