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CUZCO:

TIIE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OF

PERU

Kccápacc Ttocco (Strong hole), 4 men and 4 women, brothers and

respective wives, caJled Ayar Manco, Ayar Aucca, Ayar Cachi and

Ayar Velue, with their families : Mamá Occllo, Mamá Huacu

Mamá

Ipacura, and Mamá

Rahu

a. The Spanish ·chro'Iliclers do not write

these names in the

.me mianner, varying even in the number of

bro·bhe¡·s, for the simrple reaoon thart any one not a·ccustomed to

1the origin·al Quechua would write

the n31!J'les

as heard or as

pro·nounced in the same tenor

voice. Ayar in Quechua has no

t11anslation.

Í'S

possibly .derived from Aya, meaning cada.ver or

corpse, an.d thei:efore ex.tended ·cou1d mean the power of death.

Neither has ,M31nco an equivialent

Quechua.

is perhaps an

alteration of Malcco meaning ten·der fowl. Aucca mean& enemy

alt)lough

so:me eritics write Saukca wlücih means

to convey

",iester". Cachi meians salt; and Uchu peppe'r sauce.

All the

JlJWIDeS

;Seem .to be deri

fü o

anima,l

s anti p1a

nts.

T4e

four · l;>ro1'1her

ted qn their

journ.ey

towards the Cuzco

V'ai'Iey.

· .A'.yara Cache decla lng tl1at he pos esi¡ed

e~traordinary

po~el's

oand t,hat wher

e.r

thr w a st<,me

bere opened up ra–

vinoo; th é.other bro"(ih er

ou ht

of getiing rid of hi/ID. To

thi~

en-i

thff f!ent'him baic

Tampu.Tt

occo to bring the fo'rgotten sacr ed

c~Jr

'Whe11 Cachi entered tibe hole .the wall closed. The unharppy

01w,

gave a cry and the near moun ca.ins trembled.

otwithoStian<ling

thi!' ·ºevil a:ction

his brother·s Ayar Cachi is his divin.e ;proteeto;

as he inspired them with th.e idea of founding

Cu~co

an·d its titu-

lary institutions.

The other two brothers, Ayar Aucca and Ayar Uchu, maní·

festing that they possessed similar powers to that of the absent

b.rother were turned into <&tone, one near to Huanacauri and the

other in the vicinity of Cuzco, in the región of Ccoricancha.

Mount Huanacauri, wh•er.e

these happenangs took place, as t he

brot•hers 'Stayed there 'SOme sime, wa.s for the Incas one of their

principal places of wors<hip (or Huacas), and there will still

b·~

found tbe ruins of

temple. Ayar Manco was therefore the origi–

nal fo urude'r of t he Empire, cons<idering

this conneetion the

liu~age

<>f

the. brothers

was primarily an ;ID:mpire.

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