Decoding Andean mythologyMargarita B. Marín-Dale.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Figures; Stories; Acknowledgments; A Note on Pronunciation; Introduction; Andean Animism; The Legend of Taita Buerán; Kolla Legend of the Creation of the World; The Young Man Who Flew Up to the Sky; Intermediaries; The Bear's Son; Juan Bear; The Condor's Lover; The Eagles Who Raised a Girl; Pachacuti; Origin of the Incas; The Appearance of the First Human Beings on Earth; How the Sun Disappeared for Five Days (And now we shall tell how daylight died); The Myth of Inkarrí; Huacas

How Cuniraya Viracocha Behaved in His Own Time, and How Cauillaca Gave Birth to His Child and What Occurred The Life of Cuniraya ViracochaThe Legend of Shishu; The Legend of Mount Curitaqui ; The Legend of Mount Tepal ; The Legendary Lagoon of the Little Snakes; Concerning Con Tici Viracocha, Whom They Consider the Creator, and How He Created The Sky and the Earth and the Indian Peoples of These Provinces of Peru; The Origin of Culture; The Myth of Origin of the Cañaris; Part I. The Origin of the Incas, Kings of Peru; Part II. The Founding of Cuzco, Imperial City

Part III. What Manco Capac Inca Brought Under His DominionThe Snake's Lover; Sexuality and Guilt; The Islands of Pachacamac; Mama Little Skin; Supernatural Beings; The Pishtacos; Social Protest; The Legend of the Deer; Atoqhuarco (Hanging Fox); The Gringo and the Little Goats; What the Gringo Ate; A Meditation on the Indigenous Spiritual Vision; The Priest, Juanito, and Maria; The Priest and the Sexton; The Man Asleep; Notes; Glossary; Works Consulted; Index; Color Photographs

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