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Multi-periodSite Name: Puno Fertility Sanctuary Alternative Name: Chucuito Fertility temple, Inca Uyo
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 15.23 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Puno  Nearest Village: Chucuito
Latitude: 15.894465S  Longitude: 69.889256W
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Puno Fertility sanctuary
Puno Fertility sanctuary submitted by motist : Open air fertility sanctuary near Puno on Titicaca lake, Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)
Inca Uyo is a walled enclosure next to Santo Domingo that looks, at first glance, like a garden of giant mushrooms. But upon closer inspection, the mushrooms are carved stone penises, some pointing up at the sky (presumably toward Inti, the Inca sun god) and others rammed into the ground (toward Pachamama, Mother Earth goddess).

The walled enclosure is definitely Incan, as are the collection of carved stones. However, as reported, multiple townspeople agree that the stones were collected from other locations and placed at the enclosure. To add to the question, the Quechua word "uyo" points back to a fertility connection.

Located 18 km south of Puno, Chucuito is one of the oldest towns in the area and is surrounded by farming fields that slope gently down to Lake Titicaca. The town was once the capital of the whole province and has colonial churches on its two main squares. Nuestra Señora de la Asunción has a Renaissance facade from 1601 and sits near the upper Plaza de Armas. The second church, Santo Domingo, is L-shaped with beautifully painted stone arches, a wooden altar carved in pan de oro, and a single ancient stone tower.

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Note: Fertility Shrine? Mushroom Worship? Architectural Structures collected from all over Incan town? See comments.
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Puno Fertility Sanctuary
Puno Fertility Sanctuary submitted by Flickr : Chucuito Puno: Inca Uyu Temple of Fertility Site in Peru www.incalake.com/en/chucuito-incauyo.php Image copyright: incalake (Inca Lake), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Puno Fertility Sanctuary
Puno Fertility Sanctuary submitted by Flickr : ritual en templo del inca uyo Site in Peru www.incalake.com/en/chucuito-incauyo.php Image copyright: incalake (Inca Lake), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Puno Fertility Sanctuary submitted by Flickr : Inca Uyo // Chucuito Site in Peru www.incalake.com Templo de la fertilidad usada como templo ceremonial hacia la pachamama en tiempos incas y preincas. Fertility temple used as ceremonial temple to the Pachamama in inca and preinca times Image copyright: incalake (Inca Lake), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Puno Fertility Sanctuary
Puno Fertility Sanctuary submitted by Flickr : Chucuito Puno: Falo lítico Site in Peru www.incalake.com/en/chucuito-incauyo.php Image copyright: incalake (Inca Lake), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Puno Fertility sanctuary
Puno Fertility sanctuary submitted by motist  : Puno Fertility sanctuary

Puno Fertility Sanctuary
Puno Fertility Sanctuary submitted by motist : Open air fertility sanctuary near Puno on Titicaca lake, Peru

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How Real Is That Ruin? Don't Ask, the Locals Say by bat400 on Monday, 24 February 2014
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Inside a thick-walled rectangular ruin, a crowd of gawkers from around the world stood among rows of carved-stone posts protruding from the earth.

"Then she would sit on top," said Allison, the 11-year-old tour guide, pointing to a five-foot high, mushroom-shaped object that many say looks too much like a phallus to be anything else. Incan priests would pour corn beer on the woman trying to conceive, the girl explained in a robotic spiel.

Or maybe they didn't.

No one disputes that the structure, called the Inca Uyo, is hundreds of years old. Everyone further agrees that the site, in the middle of a grassy enclosure where soccer matches and bullfights were once held, has been a moneymaker for this small town on the Andean high plains, near Lake Titicaca. But what seems all but certain is that the ruin, with 86 of the carved stones inside it, is not the ancient fertility temple that many here like to say it is.

A local restaurant owner can recount how, a dozen years ago, he jokingly proposed arranging the suggestive stones so the town could market the Inca Uyo as the site of ancient fertility rites. And a former director of the local branch of Peru's National Institute of Culture describes finding the first of the stones in a storage shed around the same time.

But those facts — and exposés in the national news media here — have not squelched the blend of archaeology, entrepreneurship and imagination that has made obscure little Chucuito a lure for globe-trotting tourists.

The Inca Uyo's walls of large interlocking stones were authenticated in the 1950's by Marion and Harry Tschopik, archaeologists who specialized in Peru. Experts also agree that the objects inside are ancient and come from local quarries. The problem is that excavations did not reveal, and most scholarly articles do not suppose, that they were ever arranged upright in rows, as they are today.

"You have a legitimate archaeological site and inside you have a lot of pieces that are architectural objects that were found and collected by the municipality many years ago," said Charles Stanish, the director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has worked extensively in Peru. "It's become a cultural icon, and people get very upset when you say it's not legitimate."

Similarly shaped stones, featuring a cylinder connected to a square block, can be seen at such Incan sites as Machu Picchu, where they are fitted into walls so a roof can be tied to them.

Rolando Paredes, the regional director of the National Institute of Culture in nearby Puno, explained that facts became twisted when well-intentioned but misinformed people took advantage of Chucuito's abundance of these objects. Mr. Paredes, who would like to return the site to its condition before the stones were placed inside it, said he could not explain why some of the stones include a bulbous end not characteristic of those at other ruins. But, he said, to presume they were used in phallic worship is a "distortion of the truth."

A linguistic coincidence further complicates matters.
In Aymara, the dominant Indian language in Chucuito, the word "uyo" means field. In Quechua, the language spoken by the Incas and many Peruvians today, "uyo" means penis.

According to Mr. Paredes, the place designation Inca Uyo was always an Aymara name. But others disagree. "It is an Incan site," said Enrique Morro, who previously held Mr. Paredes's post. "Why is it so hard to believe the Quechua word is correct?"

Mr. Morro explained that if people want to know how the stones arrived inside the old walls, they need look no further than him. He said he discovered two footlong stones in a storage shed about 12 years ago.

"It is impossible to think of anything else," Mr. Morro said of the stones' phallic shape. He recounted how, following his discovery, he surveyed the town and f

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Re: Puno Fertility Sanctuary by Anonymous on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
PHALLIC STONES ? or MUSHROOM STONES ?

At the Inca ruins of Chucuito in Peru, South America, not far from Lake Titicaca, we see stone objects that appear to resemble mushroom stones but are referred to by tour guides as phallic stones.

According to archaeologist Gordon F. Ekholm, in a letter to my father, Maya archaeologist Stephan F. de Borhegyi, that archaeologists Marion and Harry Tschopik found what they described as mushroom stones in the general fill at this Late Inca site on the shore of Lake Titicaca. One very interesting note about these ruins is that there is an Inca legend of White Men with beards who inhabited the shores of Lake Titicaca,… who built a great city, 2000 years before the time of the Incas. (Ekholm to Borhegyi, March 12, 1953, Borhegyi Archives, MPM)

My study was inspired by a theory first proposed over fifty years ago by my father, the late Maya archaeologist Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi, that hallucinogenic mushroom rituals were a central aspect of Maya religion. He based this theory on his identification of a mushroom stone cult that came into existence in the Guatemala Highlands and Pacific coastal area around 1000 B.C. along with a trophy head cult associated with human sacrifice and the Mesoamerican ballgame. He supported this theory with a solid body of archaeological and historical evidence.

Without doubt early man noticed the likeness of certain mushrooms to a human penis. This association could have led them to draw metaphors with fertility and birth. According to Mexican mythology, Quetzalcoatl created mankind and he did so from the blood he drew from his penis in the underworld. The photo of the tallest and most noticeable monument shown above appears to have a U-shaped cleft resembling the meatus of a penis. It could equally be Identified, however, as a well known Mesoamerican symbol of a portal or entrance into the underworld. I would argue that these stone statues actually represent mushrooms, some of which appear to have been ritually decapitated.

Ethno-mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson writes…

“If I were to postulate the nature of a mushroomic cult, it would be of an erotic or procreative character. Sahagun says that the narcotic mushroom incita a la lujuria,– excites lust. He described it in a dancing scene where it is eaten.” (Wasson to Borhegyi 3-27-1953)

There is also plenty of evidence of a trophy head cult in the archaeological record of South America. According to Andean researcher Christina Conlee (Texas State University) large numbers of decapitated heads or so-called trophy heads have been found in archaeological excavations in the area of Peru. At the archaeological site of Tihaunaco not far from Lake Titicaca, several dozen decapitated bodies were found in a burial arranged in a geometric layout, buried along side drinking vessels(Soma?)suggesting the act of ritual sacrifice.
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