A comparison of the viking way of organizing life with the indepently developed Inca civilizacion is rarely done although the use of viking related material from the early Middle Ages could make it less difficult.  Especially the theme of division in two and a redivision into four could possibly yield. 

 

An example of such a systematicy in the inca material could be found in the cronicler Juan de Betanzos`  famous description of Inka Pachacutis restructurering of Cuzco into Hanancuzco and Urincuzco.

 

Chroniclers narrate that the Incas placed their halfbreed sons as governors in the homeprovinces or hometowns of their mothers and thus made a network of halfbrothers throughout the empire. This seems to be a result of a distinct form of exchange and could facilitate other forms of exchange of prestige-goods.

 

Such a structure would generate the well known series of pairs of categories: Upper-Lower, Right-Left, Male-Female, Older-Younger, Allochthonous-Autochthonous.

  

In a structurally similar Danish context, i.e. as a result of the internal colonization of the country, the word ”Spindesiden” ( distaff )  signified in Danish dialect a spin direction from right to left, but that word also signified the left side of the church. That is, the side of the women, and perhaps in former times, also the entrance of the people from Nedensogns (lower moiety), with its torper (new hamlets) and autochthonous forces. 

Analogistic ontology is thought to find its expression in both the Danish and the Andean material as there are correspondences between the pairs of categories in the series (”yanantin hinaspa masintin” in quechua and ”mager som modstykke og mager som sidestykke” in danish).

Quadriloopes as representations of correspondences between heterogenous elements seem to afford themselves also in the danish material.

Ten very short texts about growing up in Denmark in the 20th century have been translated into Quechua as an initiative to continue an analogistic dialogue.

Keld Anker Olsen 2022/2019