Source: WTL digitized slide photo© taken on site in Machu Picchu.
Comments: Here are two woman tourists, one American and the other Peruvian, whom the professor-photographer found sitting on a rock at the Intihuatana (where the sun is anchored or tied; Inti = Sun), which was/is an astronomical observatory and one of the most important ceremonial places in the Machu Picchu compound. As an entrée to the virtual tour embedded in this image, here is a fact about the Incas that the professor-photographer saw encoded in this image: Inti, the Inca god of the Sun, was served by the greatest number of priests and "chosen women". There were 4,000 of these special woman (like nuns?) in Cuzco alone and hundreds more at Machu Picchu. In the later Inca dynasties Inti was surpassed by Viracocha, the supreme Creator or Supreme Being. In any case, the professor-photographer found a very "feminine" ethos or mystery in Machu Picchu. Remember that 90% of the skeletons Hiram Bingham found in Machu Picchu in 1911 belonged to women. For the embedded photo tour, click on the Acllacuna link. "Acllacuna" is Quechua for "chosen women".