The Fimbulwinter in Peru

For the context of the coming of Light to Peru: Adolph Bandelier 1904.

Pedro Cieza de León stands alone (well, except for Joseph Smith Jr., s.a.w.) in annunciating a Post Resurrection Appearance to the lake Titicaca. What we do find at Titicaca is a consistent account by the Aymara and the non-Inca Quechua that, here, fiat lux.

Some this weekend are telling us that this happened in AD 32. Of all the world's historians, only the Christians insist on this. On pain of being OFFENDED. As usual the Christians launder their sources through several layers of... er, ahadith.

For Peru, literacy was done through quipú - an arcane art of knotted ropes, wholly lost to the fires of the Conquest. South America was handled... less gently, than was the Mesoamerica, whose Nahua-speakers swiftly learnt the Latin alphabet and took to it at least as well as did their semiliterate Extramaduran masters.

If we are looking to an event recorded in the AD 1500s, we need to count backwards from that later century. Nobody thinks today that the Fimbulwinter in the Danes' Mark referred to Calvary Hill. They think it referred to the horrors of AD 536, well-documented elsewhere. Including among the Maya, many say.

As of the sixth century, coastal north Peru was dominated by the Moche culture. The Huari would arise around AD 600 and eclipse the Moche over the next century. As for Tiahuanaco, they're later; trading-partners to the Huari, not worth the Huaris' time to conquer.

To sum up, anyone claiming a time of darkness over Tiahuanaco based on sixteenth-century hearsay needs to prove it's earlier than AD 536.