Editing Pachacamac (section)

==Pacha Kamaq deity==
[[File:The griffin Pachacamc on a Huari pot.jpg|thumb|anthropomorphic bird on a Huari pot|left]]
[[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 (gods)|pantheon]],<ref name=Prescott>{{cite book |last=Prescott |first=W.H. |year=2011 |title=The History of the Conquest of Peru |publisher=DigiReads Publishing |isbn=9781420941142}}</ref>{{rp|page=187}} but he was never an equal of ''[[Viracocha]]'', whom they viewed as more powerful.

[[File:15th century Ychsma textile, Peru.jpg|thumb|375px|left| 15th&nbsp;century Ychsma textile, from Peru's central coast]]
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 Pachacamac gave up the struggle and contented himself by becoming the supreme god of fish.