Inti Raymi
The festival was banned outright by Spanish colonial authorities in 1572 and vanished for over three centuries. What visitors see today is a twentieth-century theatrical reconstruction, staged for the first time in 1944 from a description in a seventeenth-century book — not a continuously surviving rite.
Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales (1609); the 1944 reconstruction at Sacsayhuamán, scripted by Faustino Espinoza Navarro
An Inca sun festival held at the June solstice, now restaged annually as a major public ceremony in Cusco.