| Advance: before the Inca, Chancay, Moche,
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| | sloping forehead: deep brown, secretive
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| and Chavin there was the Caral
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| | eyes;Thin lips, slightly upward,
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| civilization, in the North-central coast
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| | triangular chin; thin hair.
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| of Peru, five thousand years ago (3000
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| | Sparse outer eyebrows (beautiful) with a
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| BC)) all these civilizations lived in the
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| | straight torso.She was naked, arms
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| Supe Valley at one time except the Moche,
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| | stretched, crossed behind.(She died
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| who lived in Chan Chan, bordering the
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| | according to her times.)She sat crossed
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| coast. Caral, a city-state you might say,
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| | legged: the year 1102 AD, among herLay,
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| or perhaps a small sanctuary along the
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| | unbaked clay figurines; color cotton
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| Supe Rio (of which were perhaps some
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| | textiles;Head adornments: were two
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| 3000-inhabidents at one time)) of which I
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| | circular headdresses
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| first crossed by foot, and came back by
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| | Linked-and-twisted, made out of totora
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| horse)), in the Supe Valley, is most
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| | reed, rush fiberAnd cotton thread; a
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| bravura, for I have been there and can
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| | wooden comb by her knees.Pieces of
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| bear this out.This civilization coexisted
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| | pottery lay by her side, in the warm
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| with that of Mesopotamia of the Near
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| | valley sandTo the left of her were the
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| East, or Crete of Europe; perhaps built
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| | Caral ruins, the old city.
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| their pyramids at the same time Egypt
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| | (Four thousand years had now passed, her
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| did. The city is not only sacred, but it
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| | Ancestors long gone;Gone, now dead,
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| was political, with all its six pyramids,
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| | perhaps her blood was currently,
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| tucked away in a mountain like corral (so
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| | intermixedWith the many cultures that
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| it got its name), in that it is
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| | once walked this land.)She sat crossed
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| surrounded by beautiful mountains, known
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| | legged and thought: how crafty she
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| as the.... It is about 165-miles north
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| | wasCompared to them, for she had made
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| of Lima; it is also the city known as
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| | handles for her pottery,And she was
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| ‘…dwelling place of the
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| | proud, so very proud, of being: Peruvian
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| gods….’ You have three
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| | (with 11,000-years of proven history).
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| regions here: the Andean highlands,
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| | She brushed away theMosquitoes, watched
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| Andean jungle, and equatorial coastal
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| | her friends plant corn, hot peppers
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| area, of which now I have been to all
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| | Along the banks of the Rio, in the
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| three. It is close to the sea, the
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| | Sacred Valley of Supe.She sat crossed
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| mountains look over it, and the jungle is
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| | legged until sunset: watching the reds
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| not that far away. [Caral: in Quechua, is
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| | andYellows and orange mist fade into the
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| cabuya, or sisal, a dry fiber often used
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| | sun’s brightness:Thus, she wept and
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| in weaving.] Pottery was not discovered
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| | wept, for someone or thing had broken
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| until later to have been made at Caral,
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| | Her pottery, as she laid still from a
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| thus, no early dates for its baking
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| | blow to the back of the head,Her face
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| process. One would have to date it
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| | (her cranial traumatized); it was all she
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| perhaps between the Inca and Chavin
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| | could see,
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| cultures, or a better date might be the
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| | As they bound her knees, the way they
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| Chancay culture. It is known that the
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| | did back in 3000 BC!…(She was part
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| Chancay culture lived right on the site
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| | of the Caral legend. I for one, picked up
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| of the Caral Culture between 900 and 1300
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| | those
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| AD.The Poem:She sat crossed legged: the
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| | Pieces of clay, with handles, in the
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| Sacred Supe Rio to her right:Small,
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| | sands of the Supe Valley).
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