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A qullqa ((:ˈqʊʎˌqa) "deposit, storehouse";〔Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)〕 other spelling variants: ''colca, collca, qolca, qollca'') is a storage structure found along the roads of the Inca Empire's road system. ''Qullqas'' are distinct from the ''tampu'', the tampu was meant for more than storage. There are many more q''ullqas'' than ''tampus''. Each provincial center of the Empire had hundreds of ''qullqas'' built row after row on nearby hills.〔 Some of the ''qullqas'' built around Cusco also supplied local artisans and their products.〔D'Altroy, p. 124.〕 The largest number of ''qullqas'', 2,573 of them, was built in the Mantaro Valley.〔 Half of them were placed in the center of this grain-producing area, another half scattered among 48 compounds along the river.〔 In total, the ''qullqas'' of the Mantaro Valley have a storage area of 170 thousand square meters, being the largest storage facility in pre-Columbian America.〔D'Altroy, p. 281.〕 Qullqa is also the local name for the constellation Pleiades.〔D'Altroy, p. 28.〕 The Inca deity Qullqa, personified in the Pleiades, was the patron of warehousing and preserving seeds for the next season.〔D'Altroy, p. 146.〕 Of all the stellar pantheon worshipped by Incas, Qullqa was the "mother", the senior over all heavenly patrons of earthly things.〔D'Altroy, p. 150.〕 ==References== * Terence N. D'Altroy (2003). ''(The Incas )''. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1-4051-1676-5. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「qullqa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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