Inca Roca
Inca · scion · pre imperial · Recorded classification
Sixth Sapa Inca; son of Cápac Yupanqui. Inaugurated the Hanan-Cuzco / Hurin-Cuzco moiety division, the foundational dual-organizing principle of imperial Cuzco that structured Inca social, ritual, political, and territorial organization through the conquest. His Wikakirau Panaca was one of the senior Hanan-Cuzco corporate lineages. The marriage to Mama Micay of Huayllacan is the first chronicle-recorded politically-significant external alliance — the Huayllacan polity was a regional rival in the immediate north of Cuzco, and the marriage-alliance prefigured the later imperial-period Inca pattern of state-formation through political marriage. Conventional dating c. 1350 CE.
Parentage
- paternal: Cápac Yupanqui
- maternal: Mama Curi-Hilpay
Children
Relations
- spouse: Mama MicaySarmiento Ch. 19; Cieza (primary)
- father of: Yáhuar Huácac
Sources
- existence: Sarmiento Ch. 18-19 (primary); Cieza Pt. II Ch. 35 (primary); Garcilaso Bk. IV Ch. 6-15 (primary); Cobo Bk. XII (primary)
- inauguration-of-Hanan-Hurin-moiety-division: Sarmiento Ch. 18-19 (primary); Zuidema, The Ceque System of Cuzco (1964) (secondary)