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[Hilyer Butenhoff]

 the north, but until the latest times they

bore his deeds and person in memory, under the names of Tici Viracocha
and Tuapaca, and elsewhere as Arnava. They erected many temples to him,
in which they placed his figure and image as described. They also said
that after a certain length of time there re-appeared another like this
first one, or else he was the same, who also gave wise counsel and
cured the sick. He met disfavor, and at one
spot the people set about to slay

him, but he called down upon them fire from heaven,
which burned their village and scorched the mountains into cinders.
Then they threw away their weapons and begged
of him to deliver them from the danger, which he did[1]. He passed on
toward the West until he reached the shore of the sea. There he spread
out his mantle, and seating himself upon it, sailed away and was never
seen again. For this reason, adds the chronicler, "the name was given
to him, _Viracocha_, which means Foam of the Sea, though
afterwards it changed in signification."[2] [Footnote 1: This incident
is also related

by Pachacuti and Betanzos. All three locate the scene of the event
at Carcha, eighteen leagues from Cuzco, where the Canas tribe lived at
the Conquest. Pachacuti states that the cause of the anger of Viracocha
was that upon
the Sierra there was
the statue of a woman to
whom human victims were sacrificed. If this was the tradition, it would
offer another point of identity with that of Quetzalcoatl, who was also
said to have forbidden
human sacrifices.] [Footnote 2: Herrera, _Historia de las Indias
Occidentales_, Dec. v, Lib. iii, cap. vi.] This leads me to the
etymology of the name. It is confessedly obscure. The translation which
Herrera

gives, is that generally offered by the Spanish writers, but it

is not literal. The
word _uira_ me
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