Mama Killa vs Manco Cápac

The Moon, sister and wife of the Sun in the Inca state cult, honored in a silver-lined chamber of the Coricancha and associated with the queen and with the reckoning of months and festivals.

Made by Viracocha at Tiwanaku together with the Sun and the stars, in Betanzos's account; in royal ideology she is the Sun's sister-wife and mother of the Inca lineage.

Garcilaso de la Vega calls the Moon *Mama Quilla*, 'Mother Moon', and describes her as the sister and wife of the Sun and the mother of the Incas. In the Coricancha her chamber was lined with silver and held a silver image with a woman's face, and the bodies of dead queens (*coyas*) were set there, much as the kings' bodies sat before the Sun. The pairing mirrors the royal marriage of the Inca ruler to his sister-queen, and the queen was the Moon's earthly counterpart.

The first Inca, founder of Cusco, presented by Garcilaso as a son of the Sun sent to Lake Titicaca with his sister-wife Mama Ocllo, and by Betanzos and Sarmiento as the leader of four brothers and four sisters who emerged from a cave at Pacaritambo.

Son of the Sun and brother-husband of Mama Ocllo in Garcilaso's version; the leader of the Ayar siblings who emerged from the cave of Tambo Toco at Pacaritambo in Betanzos's and Sarmiento's.

The chroniclers preserve two main accounts of Manco Cápac. Garcilaso de la Vega (1609) says the Sun, pitying humanity's savage state, placed his son and daughter in Lake Titicaca with a golden rod; they were to settle where it sank into the ground at a single thrust, which happened at Huanacauri above the valley of Cusco. Juan de Betanzos (1551) and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1572) instead tell of four brothers, the Ayars, and four sisters who emerged from a cave called Tambo Toco at Pacaritambo, south of Cusco. On the journey one brother, Ayar Cachi, is tricked back into the cave and sealed in; another, Ayar Uchu, turns to stone on Huanacauri; and Manco, the survivor, founds Cusco.