The Fall of the Incas: The King in the North (Part 4)

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  Their capital is completely round.

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  They call it the navel of the earth, and that's what it looks like.

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  In the middle is a huge temple, the center of their faith.

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  The walls were plated with gold enough to blind us.

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  Inside, set out on tables, golden platters for the sun to dine off.

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  Outside the garden, eggs of gold soil planted with gold maize.

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  Entire apple trees in gold, gold birds on the branches,

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  gold geese and ducks, gold butterflies in the air on silver strings.

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  And, imagine this, away in a field life-size twenty golden llamas grazing with their kids.

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  The garden of the sun at Cusco.

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  I wonder if the earth...

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  Look at it now.

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  So that was posh boy Anando De Soto in Peter Shaffer's play The Role-Hunt of the Sun.

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  Came out in 1964.

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  We've been hearing a lot from it.

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  And De Soto in that passage is describing one of the great wonders of the world in the early 16th century,

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  which was Coret Cancha, the Temple of the Sun in Cusco.

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  And Dominic that.

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  is from a play.

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  But Peter Shaffer, I mean, he loves his research, doesn't he?

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