Tampu Wasi

Purpose / Function

A structure built along the dirt paths for administrative and military purposes of the Third Quadrant. Tampu Wasi are specific to the honey-obsessed people in this quadrant. It functions to:

• Contain supplies delivered by Ca-Chisneu
• Serve as lodging for itinerant state personnel
• Keep depositories of quipu records
• Isolate and tend to the sick

Design

Long Hall

Walls of steamed lumber are stretched and bent across a hard rock foundation to form the middle section and enclosed with walls of plant fibers. It is in the long hall where the many community events take place like marriages, funerals, petitions to the chiefs and other celebrations.

Offshoot Buildings

Several single room buildings made from mud bricks and dried leaves circle the long hall in irregular patterns. They create a campus of simple multi-purpose rooms that can acts a storage units, sick beds, accomodations and reservable rooms.

Entries

Qhapaq Ñan

All tampu sit along the four royal roads originating from Hawkaypata to the four regions of Tawantinsuyu.

• Large tambos are separated from each other by the amount time it takes a herd of llama to travel between them.
• Medium tambos are separated from each other by the amount time it takes a person to walk between them.
• Small tambos are strategically built around the main and offshoot and less travelled roads.

Sensory & Appearance

Honey Shine

They are sumptuously decorated with straw roofs that appeared to shine like gold from a distance, and is a space of great importance and power.

Sugar Scents

Sweet scents permeate the air in the long hall and through some of the smaller buildings and cells where people drink aoctli, bathe in honey tubs, rub honey creams and carry their candied loved ones to their final resting place.
The honey people have used honey as a general treatment for nearly everything:

• Eye Diseases
• Respiratory Problems
• Throat Infections
• Chaky Oncay
• Thirst
• Piles

• Hiccups
• Fatigue
• Dizziness
• Drunkenness
• Constipation
• Worm Infestation

• Rashes
• Burns
• Sores, boils, festers and wounds
• Nutritional Supplement

Denizens

Natives

Only the honey people have successfully won concessions from the innoits.
As a result, they choose their own stewards, loyal to their own, to managing its functions and the rest of the community willingly supply the daily needs of the tambo's stores.

Representatives

Regardless, the sapas send their own relatives to oversee that natives keep these tambos well supplied and are properly allocated distributed to travellers.
They keep the quipu accounts so as to check there had been no fraud.

Valuables

Honey Hoard

The golden liquor, so valued by the people of the world, is stored in vast quantities in underground cellars, closets and open barrels.

Alterations

A tampu's function is dependent on its size which determines the facilities they could contained. Traditional tampu wasi were far humblier structures: composed of a single tall and long building lined with placements along its length for members of the community to treat with each other.

Since their integration into the rest of the world, many upgrades were added to match the standards of every other tampu:

• can house various state officials
• store inventories
• record items on knotted strings to track
  Food

  • Quinoa
  • Beans
  • Other vegetables
  • Dried meat
  • Seeds

  Mediums of Exchange

  • Textiles
  • Clothing
  • Wool
  • Cotton
  • Feathers

  Hardwares

  • Tools
  • Weapons
  • Gold and silver vessels
  • Other luxury items

Architecture

Kancha

An architectural feature that consist of a large rectangular structure housing a number of smaller one-room structures within to shield patrons against the highlands's sun and heat. They are typically used as living facilities to reflects the tampus' purpose in housing traveling individuals or groups.

Tourism

Officials

Bureaucrats on official business are granted free food, goods and change of clothes whenever they present the steward with a specific quipu.

Caravans

Pastorialists herding of bihorns, small trains of llamas and swarms of guina pigs, frequently pass by as both customers and sellers.

Chasquis

Runners trained to carry, read and translate quipus to each other and to higher authorities.

Alternative Names

Honey Hospital

Honey Place

Tampu

Type

Apothecary

Parent Location

Tampu

Related Professions

• Chasquis
• Ranqhaq

Related Ethnicities

• Honey People

Ruling/Owning Rank

Zipa

Owning Organization

Third Quadrant

Related Traditions

• Honey Burial
• Pachamanca
• Sapo
• Self-Mummification

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