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The Legend of Mama Huaco
[edit]Mama Huaco and Manco Capac tested the soil at Cuzco to try and find the most fertile fields, “They went searching, testing the earth with a pole or staff and smelling it, until they arrived at Huanaypata, which satisfied them”[1]. When they arrived at Huanaypata they encountered an Indigenous group known as the Huallas. Manco Capac and Mama Huaco battled the Huallas for control over the field. “Mama Huaco was so fierce, that she killed one of the Hualla Indians, cut him up and ripped his entrails out, and took the heart and lungs in her mouth”[1]. Seeing what Mama Huaco had done the Huallas abandoned their field, surrendering it to Manco Capac and Mama Huaco. They killed all of the Huallas they could, so they could destroy the memory of these people. After their victory in the battle for Huanaypata, Manco Capac and Mama Huaco planted the first corn seeds in this field [1]
Some literature cites Mama Ocllo as being the sister in this legend instead of Mama Huaco[2]
- ^ a b c Bauer, Brian (1996). "Legitimization of the state in Inca myth and ritual". American Anthropologist. 98: 332 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Goode, Abby (2018). The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature. Plymouth, NH: Public Commons Publishing. pp. 58–60.