A member of an ancient religious brotherhood or monastic order, particularly one from the Inca Empire.
From Quechua anachueta, referring to religious ascetics in Incan society. This word entered European languages through Spanish colonial accounts of the Americas in the 16th-17th centuries.
The anachueta were the Inca Empire's spiritual elite—they practiced intense asceticism and held enormous power, similar to how priests did in medieval Europe, but in a completely different culture across the Atlantic!
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