Pachacamac, 'the animator of the world,' is the great oracular deity of the central coast, whose famous temple lay in the Lurin valley below the Huarochirí highlands. In the manuscript he is a power of the earth's depths: it was believed that when he stirred the ground trembled, and that were he ever to turn his whole body the world would come to an end, so people took care not to provoke him. He is set in rivalry with the highland creator Cuniraya Huiracocha, who visits his precinct, deceives his household, and frees the fish kept by his consort Urpayhuachac. As lord of earthquakes and of a renowned coastal oracle he marks the meeting of highland and coastal religion within the Huarochirí world.