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Let’s take a look at Pachacamac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachacamac
“Pachacamac (Quechua: Pachakamaq) is an archaeological site 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. The site was first settled around A.D. 200 and was named after the "Earth Maker" creator god Pacha Kamaq. The site flourished for about 1,300 years until the Spanish invaded. Pachacamac covers about 600 hectares of land.”
“Pacha Kamaq deity
Pacha Kamaq ('Earth-Maker') was considered the creator god by the people who lived in this part of Peru before the Inca conquest. The Inca received him into their pantheon,[1]:187 but he was never an equal of Viracocha, whom they viewed as more powerful.
The myths that survive of Pacha Kamaq are sparse and confused: some accounts, for example, identify him as Manco Cápac's cowardly brother Ayca, while others say that he, Manco Cápac and Viracocha were the sole three sons of Inti, the sun god. Another story says that he made the first man and the first woman, but forgot to give them food – and when the man died and the woman prayed over Pachacamac's head to his father Inti to make her the mother of all the peoples of earth, Pachacamac was furious. One by one, as the children were born, he tried to kill them – only to be beaten and to be thrown into the sea by her hero-son Wichama, after which he gave up the struggle and contented himself by becoming the supreme god of fish.”
>> From what little is written about Pacha Kamaq here, we can see hints of people dying with connection to the sea and fish. But what got my attention the most are the similarities with the story of Chronos from Greek mythology whom used to devour his own children because of the divination that one of them will overthrow him.
Also there is this famous piece of pottery from Huari, where Pacha Kamaq is painted. I would like to ask anons to take a very close at this iconography of the deity. We have a bird of prey = eagle head with wings and head, but it has the arm and the leg of a human, a person. There are also 2 spheres with 3 lines across them: one above the wing and the second is represented between the leg and the arm, under the belly. When looking for this terracotta I noticed it’s called the Griffin Pacha Kamaq; which I found interesting because the Griffin has the body of a feline and the head, wings of a bird of prey. But here, we have the lower body of a human, not a feline. So why did they reference to this as a Griffin?
But for me, the most important is that this iconography is IDENTICAL to the many birds of prey representations (p. 281) we are seeings so far, even an echo of it in relief of the Staff-god (p. 378) in Chavin de Huantar.
As for the spheres, well, all we can do is guess work here: are these stars and constellations? The Planet Saturn? The Sun? Energy balls? Or is it the Earth with the Equator line in the middle and both Tropic lines on each side, slightly curved to the ouside. So what’s the purpose of these spheres? Are they put there to fill the empty spaces just for esthetics and artistic purposes? Or do they hold a totally different meaning? It’s unclear.
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