Machu Picchu Legend & Mythology: The Stories Behind the Sacred Stones

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel built high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, and its legends and mythology are as remarkable as the stone walls themselves. The Inca people who built it didn’t see it simply as an architectural achievement. They saw it as a sacred meeting point between the earthly world and the divine, a place chosen by gods, protected by mountain spirits, and inhabited by women who tended eternal fires for the Sun God.