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Although there is evidence of ancient communities in Peru dating back many thousands of years, only scanty knowledge about the daily lives of their inhabitants has been gleamed from the scattered remnants of such ancient cultures as the Chavin, Chimu, Huari, Moche, Nazca, Paracas, and Tiahuanacu. For some time now, Peru and the Andes have been acknowledged as a catalytic crucible for the emergence of a millennia long string of diverse cultures. Peru has a variety of regional climates and topographies including: arid coastal desert, steamy jungle rainforest, and rugged snow capped mountain. Over fifty percent of the foods the world eats today were originally cultivated or developed in the Andean area including: several varieties of beans, at least 20 varieties of corn, peanuts, peppers, 240 varieties of potatoes, quinoa, squash, and the sweet potato. Peru is located in the west central part of South America and bordered on the north by Ecuador, on the south by Bolivia and Chile, on the east by Brazil and Columbia, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
From the ancient past to
more recent times, South American Indians use the titles Vairacocha when they
address white people. Chronicle records tell tales about a fair skinned
compassionate man with a white beard named Vairacocha who was the chief of the
fair skinned Vairacochas who wore long white robes and lived at ancient
Tiahuanaco.
Vairacocha was depicted with a sunlike radiant nimbus around his head, carrying a staff and wearing sandals. He was the Creator god of the Incas, the Creator god revered by the Huari, and, a distant relative of the Chavin sky god. The most important of the gold statues representing the Pantheon of Deities in the main sanctuary at Cuzco was that of god Vairacocha. Ilya-Tiqsi Wiraqoca Pacayacaiq was his full Inca name, which meant ancient foundation world teacher lord. Vairacocha was a peace loving shaman with the cougar, condor, falcon and snake for animal totems. According to the legends, a belligerent evil people dressed in short clothes came to the sacred lake of Titicaca. Their discordant presence forced god Vairacocha and his people, the Vairacochas, to leave Tiahuanaco, promising that they would return one day. According to researchers, the Inca, who called themselves The Children of the Sun, made pilgrimages to the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru where there was a sacred rock from which the Sun and Moon originated.
There also seems to be
common thread which links together the various Peruvian cultures with Vairacocha
and the Tiahuanaco site at Lake Titicaca which also borders Bolivia...Continue
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