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ENIGMAS DE LA CIENCIA

EL SECRETO DE LOS

NUDOS INCAS

RIDDLES OF SCIENCE

THE SECRET OF THE INCAS KNOTS

Cordeles incas

Un sistema contable basado en cordeles A string-based accounting system
en el Imperio Inca. in the Inca Empire.

Writing is the representation of language through signs, from a
La escritura es la representación del lenguaje mediante primary system, constituted most of the time by notches carved
signos, desde un sistema primario, constituido la mayoría into objects, much more elaborate modes of communication have
de las veces por muescas talladas en objetos, se han logrado been progressively achieved. However, each town did not follow
progresivamente modos de comunicación mucho más the same evolution...
elaborados. Sin embargo, cada pueblo no siguió la misma
evolución... The Inca empire didn’t know phonographic writing, however, it
invented a mnemonic procedure (a set of strategies that help to
&M JNQFSJP JODB OP DPOPDJ² MB FTDSJUVSB GPOPHS ƋDB TJO retain complex ideas in a simple and perfected way), with a kind
embargo, inventó un procedimiento mnemotécnico (conjunto of knotted cord, whose arrangement allowed an ideographic
de estrategias que ayudan a retener ideas complejas de reading. Thanks to some simple strings, the Incas were able to
manera sencilla y perfeccionada), con una especie de cordel establish accurate accounting and, furthermore, preserve the
DPO OVEPT DVZB EJTQPTJDJ²O QFSNJU¬B VOB MFDUVSB JEFPHS ƋDB memory of their past in chronicles.
Gracias a unos simples cordeles, los incas pudieron establecer
una contabilidad precisa y, además, conservar la memoria de The “knotting of the shoelace”
su pasado en crónicas.
“The tying of the shoelace was known both by the ancients
and by the moderns and at all times it made witches fearsome
El «anudado de la agujeta» for new husbands. However, this curse was never as frequent
as during the 16th century, which was, at the same time,
“El anudado de la agujeta era conocido tanto por los time, the century of exorcisms, witchcraft, spells, magic and
antiguos como por los modernos y en todas las épocas sorcerers (...)
hizo a las hechiceras temibles para los nuevos esposos. Knotted the shoelace. Let him take the dick of a recently
4JO FNCBSHP FTUF NBMFƋDJP OVODB GVF UBO GSFDVFOUF DPNP killed wolf, let him go to the door of the one he wants to irt
durante el siglo XVI que fue, al mismo tiempo, el siglo de with, and let him be called by his own name. As soon as he
los exorcismos las brujerías, los embrujos, la magia y los has answered, his penis will be tied with a white cord, and the
hechiceros (...)
husband will be as impotent as a castrate, in the act of Venus
Queso helado Anudado de la agujeta. Que se tome la verga de un lobo (...)
recién muerto, que se vaya a la puerta de aquél que se

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