Editing Mama Ocllo (section)

== Founding of Cuzco ==
According to the legend, Mama Ocllo and Manco Capac were given a golden scepter to help them find an ideal place to settle and worship the sun.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rumi Maki Fighting Arts: Martial Techniques of the Peruvian Inca|last1=Flores|first1=Juan Ramon Rodríguez|last2=Vega|first2=Alex Bushman|date=2007|publisher=Blue Snake Books|isbn=978-1-58394-180-5|location=Berkeley, CA|pages=9}}</ref> After their wanderings, the pair descended into a valley. They decided to build the city of Cuzco after the golden rod they brought with them sank into the soil and disappeared.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Myth: A Handbook|last=Doty|first=William G.|date=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-32696-7|location=Westport, CT|pages=76}}</ref> The pair then set out to gather people and brought them to the city.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Cocijo's Gift to the People, Manco Capac and the Golden Rod, Quetzalcoatl Creates People|last=Pugliano-Martin|first=Carol|date=2011|publisher=Benchmark Education Company|isbn=978-1-4509-3011-6|pages=18}}</ref> They instructed them in the ways of human beings and the people were divided according to whether they could gather food or build houses.<ref name=":3" /> The people also built the [[Coricancha]] (temple of the Sun), also referred to as the Intihuasi, at the center of the new imperial city<ref name=":4" /> or - as some sources say - where the rod disappeared.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Empire of the Inca|url=https://archive.org/details/empireinca00some|url-access=limited|last=Somervill|first=Barbara A.|date=2005|publisher=Facts on File, Inc.|isbn=0816055602|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/empireinca00some/page/n14 14]}}</ref>