Huaca

A huaca is a sacred or divine personage or a part of the landscape (such as a boulder, tree, river or statue) associated with that particular divinity. These areas were the most important of the holy sites in the Incan Empire and related peoples in the Andes mountains. Multiple sacrifices were often performed, daily, seasonally, and yearly, in order to please these gods.

In 1564, in a movement known as Taqui Onquoy, or the "dancing sickness," huacas appeared in human spokesmen, calling for the expulsion of the Spanish. The Spanish crushed this resistance movement.

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