Explore the concept of religiously sanctioned cooperation in the Andean tradition. What is Allyu and how might one identify it in the deep past? What is the role of the Allyu given the various origin myths you’ve encountered? Importantly, explore how the Inka and earlier elites appropriated this apparently group-based religion for their own non-reciprocal ends? Where can you 6 see a religious explanation for these imperial actions given the Andean worldview?