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The next Inca deity I want to talk about is called Khuno or Kuno. I’ve taken the following few lines from a world mythology encyclopedia:
“Khuno was the god of snow and storms. One day, when men set the forests on fire to dig up the land for cultivation, the smoke blackened the snow on the peaks. Khuno got so angered by this transgression that he sent a big flood. In order to survive, mankind had to take refuge in the caves. When the waters of the flood retrieved, they emerged from the caves and went in search of food. In their search, they discovered a new plant: coca. It had strange virtues: they chewed the leaves and then forgot the hunger, the cold and their misfortune.”
>> This is a second myth where we hear of a Great Flood that almost wiped out humanity with the Incas. But this time the details are different:
1 - The deity who caused the flood is Khuno not Viracocha.
2 – The cause of the Flood was the deity getting angry from the Black Smoke from the Fire light by humans while clearing the land for cultivation. Do anons remember Fire and mostly a SINGLE BLACK CLOUD we’ve seen before in the Epic of Gilgamesh (p. 41 – first line)? I’ve never heard of a storm with a single black cloud before; but I do know that FIRE can cause a SINGLE BLACK SMOKE CLOUD to form. Are the pieces of the puzzle starting to come together for anons?
3 – Seems that here as well, just like we’ve seen in many other civilizations, Trees play a central role in the events that lead to the Flood.
4 – I guess anons noticed that humans took refuge in caves in order to survive the Great Flood and when they came out, they were hungry. We’ve also seen this before in other cultures/civilizations.
5 – I’m not sure if this last notable can be classified as one, but I would like to point out that in the Epic of Gilgamesh, there was talk about a plant that would restore the youth of the one whom eats it, but the plant was eaten by a snake unfortunetly (p. 38). So here, when humans got out of the caves hungry, they went looking for food and they found the coca plant with strange virtues, like making them forgetful, even forgetting their hunger. Interesting, isn’t it anons? What do you think, is this a common point or just a coincidence so far? We need to gather more puzzle pieces before we solve this riddle.
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