Answer: They believed that gold was the sweat of the sun and silver was the tears of the moon.
What did the Inca believe gold and silver were?

Gold and silver were common themes throughout the palaces of Incan emperors. It was said that the walls and thrones were covered with gold and that the emperor dined on gold and silver service . These golden plated services would often be inlaid with llamas butterflies or other creatures.

Many aspects of Inca culture were systematically destroyed including their sophisticated farming system. The Spanish used the Inca mita (mandatory public service) system to get labourers for mines and plantations. One member of each family was forced to work in the gold and silver mines the foremost of which was the silver mine at Potosí. When one family member died which would usually happen …

Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century. Indigenous Americans have been using native metals from ancient times with recent finds of gold artifacts in the Andean region dated to 2155–1936 BCE and North American copper finds dated to ...

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