This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

It was the llama that unified these three disparate Inca worlds ... They wrote of palaces walled with sheets of gold, of gold and silver statues of humans and animals, and of miniature golden ...

It was the llama that unified these three disparate Inca worlds ... They wrote of palaces walled with sheets of gold, of gold and silver statues of humans and animals, and of miniature golden ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Inca gold llama (made between 1400 and 1550). Small statue from Peru Some of you might just recognise the plaintive moan or humming sound of a llama.