Here and for the next few slides are the guide’s thoughts:
The Incan cosmology says that life on earth is just a transition between what came before and what will come after and death in this life is simply the inevitable movement to the next stage of life.
Their symbolic representation of this concept is the snake who brings us up from our past in the earth, the puma who is with us throughout this life, and the condor who flies us off to the future.
The site is divided by what modern archeologists name for the supposed purpose of the buildings.
The sections are temples and living space for priests, royal accommodation, workers spaces, jail. It’s all pretty speculative because there is nothing in any record from the time the city flourished to say what was the purpose of the city.