The Obituary
Viracocha was the supreme creator god of the Inca and earlier Andean peoples, maker of the cosmos, the sun, the moon, and the first humans. Myth holds that he emerged at Lake Titicaca, raised the heavenly bodies, and shaped people from stone, then wandered the land teaching civilization before walking west across the Pacific and disappearing over the sea. Worshipped as a remote high god above Inti, his state cult ended with the Spanish conquest of Peru, completed by 1572, and the imposition of Catholicism.
Worth remembering
- He created the world in darkness, raised the sun and moon from Lake Titicaca, and fashioned humans from stone.
- After teaching the arts of civilization, he departed westward across the Pacific, vanishing over the waves.
Sources
- Viracocha was the supreme creator god of the Inca and earlier Andean cultures Wikipedia
- He was said to have created the world, sun, moon, and humans at Lake Titicaca Encyclopaedia Britannica
A graveyard tradition: leave a stone to show you came, and remembered.