The Origin
Before There Were Tests,
There Was a Knowing
Long before personality tests existed – before anyone thought to put the soul into categories – there was an ancient understanding of who we really are.
High in the Andes, where the air thins and the veils between worlds grow transparent, the Q’ero people preserved what others forgot.
They carried forward an ancient understanding – not written in books, but woven into ceremony, whispered across generations, and encoded in the very landscape of sacred mountains and hidden valleys.
While empires rose and fell, while conquerors came and languages were suppressed, they kept the fire burning in the high places where no one thought to look.
They understood what we’re only now remembering:
You are not walking one path through one world.
You are walking one path through three worlds – simultaneously.
Kimsa Pacha
The Three Worlds that exist within you
Hanan Pacha
The Upper World
(hah-NAHN PAH-chah)
Guarded by the Condor. The realm of your highest nature. Your soul’s essential blueprint. What you came here to be.
Your Soul Type.
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Kay Pacha
The Middle World
(KAY PAH-chah)
Guarded by the Puma. The realm of your present reality. Your patterns, reactions, and ways of moving through the world.
Your Enneagram Type.
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Ukhu Pacha
The Lower World
(OO-koo PAH-chah)
Guarded by the Serpent. The realm of your depths. Your wounds, your healing gifts, your transformational power.
Your Healing Pathway.
Explore →For thousands of years, these three dimensions were understood as one unified map – not separate systems, but a single truth viewed from three angles.
Then the world fragmented.
The Forgetting
As centuries passed, pieces of this integrated wisdom scattered across cultures and continents. Each fragment became its own system.
The personality patterns became frameworks like the Enneagram. The soul archetypes became spiritual typologies. The healing modalities became therapeutic traditions.
Each valuable. Each incomplete.
The Seeking
Modern seekers now move between systems – taking this test, reading that book, trying another modality – sensing that something is missing but never quite finding the complete picture.
They collect fragments, never realizing these are broken pieces of a single mirror.
The Remembering
INTI ÑAN means “Sun Path” in Quechua – the language of the Andes that has survived conquest, colonization, and centuries of suppression.
It’s named for the journey toward illumination. Not the sun itself, but the path you walk to reach it.
This platform exists to restore what was fragmented. To reunite the three dimensions into a single, coherent map. To help you see not just your personality or your soul type or your healing pathway – but how all three converge into something unique.
The Symbol
The figure you see throughout INTI ÑAN is Viracocha – the Andean creator who formed the sun, the three worlds, and humanity itself. But he didn’t just create and leave.
According to the ancient stories, he walked among us – teaching, guiding. And seeing humanity struggle to find their way, he wept.
That’s the spirit of this work. Not wisdom handed down from above –
but wisdom that walks beside you, as you move between the three worlds.
The 189 Pathways™
When three dimensions combine, they create configurations that have never existed before and will never exist again in quite the same way.
189There are 189 possible combinations. 189 different ways these three parts of you can come together. Each one is a distinct pathway – a specific blend of who you are at your core, how you show up in the world, and how you’re meant to grow.
Most people spend years – sometimes a lifetime – trying to understand themselves through fragments. One test here. Another framework there. Pieces that never quite fit together.
What if you could see the whole picture? What if the patterns that have puzzled you suddenly made sense – not as flaws to fix, but as parts of a coherent design?
One of these 189 pathways is yours.
It’s been waiting.
The Path Begins Here
You don’t need to know which world to start with. You only need to take the first step.
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INTI ÑAN was created by
Merlin MacIntyre – The Quipu Keeper.
Enneagram 5 · Scholar Soul · Karmic Healing
“You don’t collect information. You decode ancestral memory.”
There was a before – fourteen years in a world of systems and certainty, measured in outcomes. That chapter closed. Then the mountains called.
Vilcabamba. They call it the Valley of Longevity – where time moves differently and the old ways never fully left. The air is thinner here. Rivers that have never stopped speaking. Mandango, the Sleeping Inca, guards what time forgot.
The quipu was how the Inca recorded everything that mattered – not in words, but in knots. Each knot a memory. Each cord a lineage. The Spanish burned them, thinking they were destroying records. They were destroying a way of knowing.
Something changes in those who stay long enough.
Some mornings, the work arrives as if someone is handing it to me. As if the pathways were always being held by someone who knew the way before I did. I am not the source of this. I am the one who writes it down.
The 189 pathways weren’t built – they were uncovered. Thread by thread, pattern by pattern, until what had always been there finally became visible. Ancient threads reunited – reading patterns across time like knots on a cord.
The Quipu Keeper holds what others overlook.
Lets the work speak.
For Sara, who knew the way before I did.