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God of death. A god of insatiable greed. The Incas sacrificed over a hundred children
a year to Supai and still he would not leave them alone.
Tonapa Tonapa, Tonapa Tonapa also Tonapa Tonapa Viracocha Viracocha Nipacachan Nipacachan
The great god Viracocha in human form, traveling in disguise as an old man with a
staff, preaching virtue to the people, working miracles, sleeping in the fields with
nothing but his tunic for cover. Failing more often than succeeding, widely despised,
Tonapa departed across the sea.
Tupan Tupan (Tupinamba, Brazil)
God of thunder and lightening. A bulky young man with wavy hair. Tupan likes to
visit his mother often, and when he does the passage of his boat causes storms. The
Tupinamba respect but do not worship Tupan.
Virococha Virococha (Inca)
Literally, Sea-Foam. The Creator. The teacher of the world. After the Great Flood,
which covered even the highest mountains and destroyed all life, Virococha molded
new people out of clay at Tia Huanaco. On each figure of clay he painted the many
features, clothes and hairstyles of the many nations, and gave to them their languages,
their songs and the seeds they were to plant. Bringing them to life, Viracocha ordered
them to travel underground and emerge at different places on the earth. Then
Viracocha made the sun and the moon and the stars, and assigned them to their places
in the sky. Raising up smaller Viracocha, the God ordered them to go about the world
and call forth the people, and see to it that they multiplied and followed the
commandments they had been given. Some of the little viracocha went south, some
went southeast, while the God's two sons traveled northeast and northwest.
Viracocha himself traveled straight north. Some tribes had rebelled, and these
Viracocha punished by turning the people into stone. At Pucara, forty leagues north
of Cuzco, Viracocha called down fire from the sky upon those who had disobeyed his
commandments. Arriving at last at Cuzco and the seacoast, Viracocha gathered
together his two sons and all the little viracocah, and they walked across the water
until they disappeared.