ABSTRACT
Peru is a nation with a long-standing millenarist, or more properly, messianic tradition. Although the idea of an end of the world associated with the belief in a succession of cycles of 1,000 years has been recurrent since the pre-Hispanic period, the term “messianic” is preferred. This is because religious eschatology generally emphasizes the image of a unifying principle that redeems humanity from the cataclysmic consequences of the end of the world.
