The most important is in the Coricancha temple. The Incas created many enclosures to venerate the moon. This divinity protected the women of the empire and regulated the winds and the state of the sea. Moon (Keel) – The moon was the wife of the sun. Many of these customs are still maintained in the Andean man of today. The Incas made offerings with chicha, coca and even animal sacrifices. Its origin is much earlier than the Incas. In his honor the Coricancha was built and the Inti Raymi was celebrated.Įarth (Pachamama) – The ‘Pachamama’ was the goddess of fertility. The Inca was the son of the sun for what was his representation in the world of the living. The sun was the husband of the ‘Pachamama’. Sun (Inti) – The sun was the main Inca divinity. For them there were several gods in nature: the sun, the moon, the earth, the stars, the lightning, etc. His power was infinite and could not be discussed. The Inca was the ‘son of the sun’, mediator between the world of the living and the world of the gods.Finally, they rise to the world of the gods. Then they travel through the world of the living. The Incas believed that men come from the earth or from the world of the dead.The world was divided into 3 planes: the world above or the gods ( Hanan Pacha), the earthly or living world ( Kay Pacha) and the world below or the dead ( Uku Pacha).Thus, they concluded that the Andean god ‘ Huiracocha‘ created the world and was represented by these deities of nature. The Incas took as their own the way of thinking of the Ande inhabitants who preceded them.Its main gods were the sun ( Inti), the earth ( Pachamama), the moon ( Killa), the ray ( Illapa), the mountains ( Apus) and many other deities.That is to say, the sun, the moon, the earth, the plants, the animals and everything that surrounds them are divine beings that have life. The Incas had a pantheistic conception of the world.When the first tribe was finished, he set it aside there in Tiahuanaco, and he made another tribe and another.What was the way of thinking of the Incas? This he did at Tiahuanaco.Īnd at Tiahuanaco he created new tribes of men, making each tribe from stone and each tribe had its chieftain and its women who were pregnant and other women who had children on cradleboards. Also, he created the moon and the stars, and he put them into the sky. Then he created the sun and made it run in its proper course. He turned the first beings into stone, as a punishment for the anger they had caused him. He disappeared, and still there was darkness.īut the first beings were displeasing to Viracocha and he emerged again from Lake Titicaca, and many like himself - many viracochas - were with him. Then Viracocha, called Illa Ticsi Viracocha, the Bright One, the First One, the Foam of the Sea, came forth from the waters and made the earth and the sky. The Legend of ViracochaĪt first there was only darkness, and within the darkness were the waters of the great lake, Titicaca. So, he destroyed them with a flood and made new, better ones from smaller stones. He also created mankind by breathing into stones, but his first creation were brainless giants that displeased him. Viracocha the great creator god in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology was the one that created the universe, sun, moon, stars, time and civilization itself. International Document for Antecedentes Peru.
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