Cuniraya Viracocha

Trickster creator-huaca of Huarochirí who courts Cavillaca and fathers Pariacaca; merged with the creator Viracocha.

Children

• Pariacaca

Domains

• creation and fertility
• trickery and transformation

Powers

• Make terraces, canals and game by his word
• Impregnate Cavillaca with a transformed fruit

Epithets

• Tiqsi Wiraqucha Pachayachachic quechua · Ticci Viracocha Pachayachachic'Foundation/Origin Viracocha, Teacher (Maker-Orderer) of the World' — the supreme creator-titleMolina, Cristóbal de. Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575), the creation prayers (primary chronicle); Cobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, Book 13, ch. 2 (Viracocha Pachayachachic) (primary chronicle)
• Illa Tiqsi Wiraqucha quechua · Illa Ticci Viracocha'Ancient/Light Foundation Viracocha' — invocatory title of the creator in the Cuzco prayersMolina, Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575) (primary chronicle); Rowe, John H. 'Inca Culture at the Time of the Spanish Conquest', Handbook of South American Indians vol. 2, 1946 (secondary scholarship)

Relations

• lover: Cavillaca
• ancestor of: PariacacaCuniraya Viracocha fathers the fivefold storm-god Pariacaca (born of five falcon-eggs) in the Huarochiri cycle.Huarochiri Manuscript, ch. 2 and 5 (trans. Salomon & Urioste, 1991) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Huarochirí Manuscript (Quechua, ca. 1598-1608) (primary)