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Surrounded by the peaks of the Andean cordillera, the deep blue waters of Lake Titicaca have long provided refreshment and nourishment to the people who live along its shores. From prehistoric times, the Andean peoples have held Titicaca to be a sacred place, the source from which all life originated and the site where the divine manifests its presence.In this interdisciplinary study, Verónica Salles-Reese explores how Andean myths of cosmic and ethnic origins centered on Lake Titicaca evolved from pre-Inca times to the enthronement of the Virgin of Copacabana in 1583. She begins by describing the myths of the Kolla (pre-Inca) people and shows how their Inca conquerors attempted to establish legitimacy by reconciling their myths of cosmic and ethnic origin with the Kolla myths. She also shows how a similar pattern occurred when the Inca were conquered in turn by the Spanish.This research explains why Lake Titicaca continues to occupy a central place in Andean thought despite the major cultural disruptions that have characterized the region's history. This book will be a touchstone in the field of Colonial literature and an important reference for Andean religious and intellectual history.

For centuries scholars have been baffled by Inca accounts that spoke of legendary white gods that walked the lands of South America performing miracles. Stranger still were the carvings left by the mysterious civilisations of Tiahuanaco, thought to be the most ancient site on earth. It was believed the codes could never be broken. But now, for the first time ever, Maurice Cotterell unlocks the secrets of the Inca and discovers the treasure-filled tombs of Viracocha Pachacamac and Viracocha. The story of the white gods was not a myth after all. These two great sun-kings, who side-stepped the annals of history, actually lived and walked the lands of Peru over 1,500 years ago.

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Peruvian myth tells of a wise man known as Viracocha who sailed away to the north after a period of persecution. And Mexican legend is filled with tales of Quetzalcoatl, a godlike figure who appeared by sea from the south, who established law among the Aztecs, and whose fame grew as a teacher of all things. In Mexico and Yucatan, in the Andean caves, and in the jungles of Peru, extraordinary likenesses have been noted among stone carvings relating to these legends and in the ornamental work found among the ruins of the ancients. Others had dismissed these similarities as coincidence. Gene Savoy felt sure that hundreds of years before the Spanish Conquest - and much earlier than scientists had thought it possible - cultural interchange had taken place between South and Central America. Guided by the legends, he theorized a sea link. To prove his assumption, he set out to duplicate the mythological voyage of Virachocha/Quetzalcoatl from Peru to Mexico. The tale of this daring and exciting sea expedition in a totora reed vessel rivals the adventures of Kon-Tiki. From the first, the expedition seemed doomed to failure. Yet Savoy and his crew of two, pitting their skill and knowledge against the sea, overcame the defects of their craft and the natural hazards of storms, doldrums and tricky currents. This book, profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, is the dynamic record of one man's dream become reality, historical theory turned fact, and human endurance triumphant over nature.

Kon-tiki fue el nombre de la balsa utilizada por el explorador noruego Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) en su expedición de 1947 por el océano Pacífico desde Sudamérica hasta la Polinesia. El nombre de la embarcación se debía al dios solar de los incas, Viracocha, de quien se decía que antiguamente había llevado el nombre de «Kon-Tiki». Kon-Tiki es también el nombre del libro que escribió Heyerdahl sobre su experiencia. Heyerdahl sostenía que pobladores procedentes de Sudamérica podrían haber llegado hasta la Polinesia ya en tiempos precolombinos. El propósito de Heyerdahl era demostrar la posibilidad de que el poblamiento de la Polinesia se hubiese llevado a cabo por vía marítima, desde América del Sur, en balsas idénticas a la usada durante la expedición y movidas únicamente por las mareas, las corrientes y la fuerza del viento, que es casi constante, en dirección este-oeste, a lo largo del Ecuador. No obstante, la expedición dispuso de ciertos elementos como una radio, relojes, mapas, sextantes y cuchillos, aunque los mismos no fueron relevantes a la hora de probar que una balsa como la utilizada podía realizar la travesía. La expedición Kon-Tiki fue financiada mediante préstamos y contó con donaciones de parte del ejército de Estados Unidos. Heyerdahl viajó tiempo antes a Perú, donde, junto con un pequeño grupo de personas y dentro del espacio provisto por las autoridades nacionales, se dedicó a la construcción de la balsa. Para ello, se emplearon troncos de madera balsa y otros materiales autóctonos, y se mantuvo el estilo de construcción indígena tal como se observó en las ilustraciones dejadas por los conquistadores españoles. La travesía comenzó el 28 de abril de 1947. Heyerdahl y otros cinco integrantes viajaron durante 101 días a lo largo de casi 7000 km por el océano Pacífico, hasta llegar a un arrecife en el atolón de Raroia, en las islas Tuamotu, el 7 de agosto de 1947. Toda la tripulación llegó a tierra sana y salva.

A collection of religious stories from around the world highlights the often striking similarities in the beliefs of different cultures with tales of the Incan Viracocha, Buddha, the Aborigine's Baime, and the Christian and Jewish God.