The cords stored information with knots tied in vast assemblages of string, sometimes containing thousands of threads.
It's often said that the indigenous people of South America never developed a system of writing.
But this isn't entirely true. In fact, they created a unique and complex system of notation based on the tying of knots, known as quipu, which remain undeciphered to this day.
The cords stored information with knots tied in vast assemblages of string, sometimes containing thousands of threads.
One early European eyewitness Hernando Pizarro records one early sighting of these quipu.
They were once interpreted by a class of learned people known as quipucamayocs, who were trained in their art in Inca schools or yachay wasi (literally "house of teaching").
The quipu were read with the hands, and according to Quechuan chronicler Guaman Poma, quipucamayocs could even read the quipus with their eyes closed.
One thing we are fairly certain of: the quipu mainly contained numerical information.
The quipu would have recorded the numbers of people in a certain province, the amount of food needed, the amount of cloth produced, the amount of recruits, etc. https://t.co/Ts0vbxtG1i
One Jesuit priest named Joseph de Acosta is quite clear in his accounts that the quipu were more than just counting devices.
Gary Urton The Khipu Database Project (KDP) claims to have already decoded the first word from a quipu – the name of the village of Puruchuco (pictured).
If this hypothesis is correct, then the quipu are the only known example of a complex language recorded in a three-dimensional system.
Source: https://t.co/BHnp4Zy6pW
No example of written Quechua has been found before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, and all our knowledge of Andean culture comes from later sources.
Quipu were often used to record offerings to Inca gods, and were therefore considered idolatrous objects.
We do not know the total number of quipu burned, or what information may have been contained within them.
But for now, they stand as a silent testimony to the fragility of human culture, and how easily the connections of memory and history can be severed.
“The Quipu: ‘Written’ Texts in Ancient Peru.” Elizabeth P. Benson. https://t.co/26SK1S66Cb
“The last of the Incas : the rise and fall of an American empire” by Edward Hyams. https://t.co/tQUX6poEGP
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The only true writing system that developed in the American continent, these were carved into the stones of temples, pyramids & palaces without the help of metal tools. pic.twitter.com/33NOKVxVew
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