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Unknown authorUnknown author; Dick S. Ramsay Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Marie Bernice Bitzer Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund; Gift of The Roebling Society and the American Art Council; purchased with funds given by an anonymous donor, Maureen and Marshall Cogan, Karen B. Cohen, Georgia and Michael deHavenon, Harry Kahn, Alastair B. Martin, Ted and Connie Roosevelt, Frieda and Milton F. Rosenthal, Sol Schreiber in memory of Ann Schreiber, Joanne Witty and Eugene Keilin, Thomas L. Pulling, Roy J. Zuckerberg, Kitty and Herbert Glantz, Ellen and Leonard L. Milberg, Paul and Thérèse Bernbach, Emma and J. A. Lewis, Florence R. Kingdon. · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sinchi Roca

Inca · demigod · pre imperial · Recorded classification

Second Sapa Inca; son of Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo. The first Sapa Inca born in Cuzco rather than emergent from Pacaritambo, marking the transition from founder-generation to dynastic continuity. Founder of the Raurau Panaca, one of the senior corporate-landholding lineages of imperial-period Cuzco. Formalized the institution of male-puberty initiation at the Huanacauri huaca (the Huarachicuy / Capac Raymi rite), establishing the ceremonial framework that subsequent Sapa Incas elaborated into the Inca state's most-important annual ritual. The Sinchi title (pre-Inca regional war-leader) used as regnal name signals the formalization of Inca military-state authority — Sinchi Roca is the figure who transitions the Inca polity from migrant founder-cohort to consolidated Cuzco-basin sovereignty. Demigod-class (registry math: Manco Cápac demigod 0.5 + Mama Ocllo demigod 0.5 → child f=0.5 = demigod). His chronological dating is conventionally c. 1230 CE but, as with all pre-Pachacuti Sapa Incas, this is legendary-historical rather than archaeologically anchored.

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