Cuniraya Huiracocha is a creator and trickster who roams the world disguised as a poor, lice-ridden beggar in a tattered cloak, while by his mere word he brings terraces, canals, and springs into being. His most celebrated exploit is his pursuit of the beautiful Cahuillaca: he places his seed inside a lucuma fruit which she eats, conceiving a son; when she rejects him and flees toward the sea, he chases her, questioning the animals he meets and blessing or cursing them by their answers. His name links him to the pan-Andean creator Viracocha, and sources differ on how far the two are to be equated. In a further episode he outwits the coastal deity Pachacamac and releases the fish kept by Urpayhuachac into the ocean, accounting for the sea's abundance.