The Copyright Mummies Fetishizing the artist has led to a lockdown in creativity

摘要

When Pizarro sweptinto Peru in theearly 1500s, heencountered anempire whose size and wealthwas unrivalled. High in the AndesMountains, the Inca had built avast civilization under the divinerule of a series of immortal em-perors. Needless to say, the pre-tense of immortality is not easyto maintain. To circumvent theembarrassing fact of an emper-or's eventual death, the deceasedwas mummified. His preservedstate allowed him to con-tinue to attendofficial func-tions and handdown opinionsvia a group offemale medi-ums. His ac-cumulated wealth passed intothe care of his panaqa, or lin-eage, which was responsible formaintaining and expanding it.