531. Ossio A., Juan M., ed., Ideolog’a Mesi‡nico del Mundo Andino. Lima: Ignacio Prado Pastor, 1973.
For at least some Andean people memories of the conquest and its reversal of all orders and value orient life, according to the papers in Ossio's collection as reviewed by Friedhelm Hardy (1975). Christian elements were included in two Inca movements: acculturation in the service of rebellion. Messianism is required, not by historical circumstance alone, but by indigenous tradition. It is logical that the present will be replaced in future transformation. The head of the last Inca king was severed by the Spanish; once it grows a new body the king will return and restore the ancient order. Current sources reflect doubt in this belief, thus a loss of hope.
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