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Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas)

Name: Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas)
Author: Cristóbal de Molina (of Cusco)

Cristóbal de Molina (of Cusco) · c. 1575 · Spanish

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Cristóbal de Molina (of Cusco)

c. 1575

A Cusco priest's account of Inca origin stories and the ritual calendar, based on testimony from elders who had served the Inca state cult; it records Quechua prayers to the Creator and describes the Citua purification and the initiation rites at Huanacauri.

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Viracocha Makes the World at TiticacacreationRising 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.

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