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Inca and Andean Tradition

Inca (Tawantinsuyu) and the wider Quechua- and Aymara-speaking Andean world

Name Date

1. Who's who

Write the letter of each figure's role next to their name.

  1. 1.Inti
  2. 2.Viracocha
  3. 3.Mama Killa
  4. 4.Manco Cápac
  5. 5.Pachacamac
  6. 6.Pachamama
  7. 7.Pariacaca
  8. 8.Cuniraya Viracocha
  • A.the earth, fertility, agriculture
  • B.the founding of Cusco, kingship, agriculture
  • C.the moon, the calendar, the queen (coya)
  • D.irrigation and terraces, trickery, the ordering of animals
  • E.rain and storm, irrigation water, the snow mountain
  • F.the earth and its tremors, oracles, the coast
  • G.creation, the ordering of peoples, civilization
  • H.the sun, kingship, harvest

2. Family and relationships

Fill in each blank with a name from the word bank.

Word bank: Inti · Manco Cápac

  1. 1. is a sibling of Mama Ocllo.
  2. 2. is the spouse of Mama Killa.
  3. 3. is a parent of Mama Ocllo.

3. Short answers

  1. 1. What was Inti associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Inti?

  2. 2. What was Viracocha associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Viracocha?

  3. 3. Retell “Viracocha Makes the World at Titicaca” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

  4. 4. Retell “Children of the Sun: Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

Answer key: Inca and Andean Tradition

1. Who's who

  1. 1. Inti: H
  2. 2. Viracocha: G
  3. 3. Mama Killa: C
  4. 4. Manco Cápac: B
  5. 5. Pachacamac: F
  6. 6. Pachamama: A
  7. 7. Pariacaca: E
  8. 8. Cuniraya Viracocha: D

2. Family and relationships

  1. 1. Manco Cápac
  2. 2. Inti
  3. 3. Inti

3. Short answers (guidance)

  1. 1. the sun, kingship, harvest. Symbols: a golden disk, the Punchao image, gold. (mythosatlas.com/deities/inti)
  2. 2. creation, the ordering of peoples, civilization. Symbols: Lake Titicaca, a staff, stone figures of the first people. (mythosatlas.com/deities/viracocha)
  3. 3. Rising from Lake Titicaca into a world of darkness, the Creator turns a first, disobedient people to stone, makes the sun, moon, and stars at Tiwanaku, shapes the nations in stone and sends them underground to emerge at their own places, then walks away across the western sea. (mythosatlas.com/stories/viracocha-creation-at-titicaca)
  4. 4. The Sun sends his son and daughter from Lake Titicaca with a golden rod to find the place where it will sink into the earth; it vanishes at Huanacauri, and there they found Cusco. A second tradition tells instead of four brothers and four sisters emerging from a cave at Pacaritambo. (mythosatlas.com/stories/children-of-the-sun)

Generated from the Mythos Atlas catalog. Traditions vary between sources; accept well-supported alternatives.