Editing Viracocha (section)

==Etymology==
''Tiqsi Huiracocha'' (Spanish:''Ticsi Viracocha'') may have several meanings.  In the [[Quechuan languages]], ''tiqsi'' means "origin" or "beginning", ''wira'' means fat, and ''qucha'' means lake, sea, or reservoir.<ref>Teofilo Laime Acopa, Diccionario Bilingüe, Iskay simipi yuyay k'ancha, Quechua – Castellano, Castellano – Quechua</ref>
Viracocha's many epithets include ''great'', ''all knowing'', ''powerful'', etc.
Some people state that ''Wiraqucha'' could mean ''"Fat (or foam) of the sea"'',<ref name=Dover/><ref name=Damian>{{cite book
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 |year=2004 |publisher= Edwin Mellen Press|isbn= 0-7734-6217-1|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=U15dAAAAMAAJ|access-date=22 November 2009}}</ref> etymology that has been discarded for grammatical considerations (constituent order in [[Quechua language|Quechua]]) at least since [[Inca Garcilaso]]. According to German archeologist [[Max Uhle]], "foam lake" is an incomprehensible name. He points out that ''Vira'' (''Huira'') can also be derived from the Quechua word ''huyra'' ("the end of all things"), and that ''Ticsi Viracocha'' therefore could have the meaning "lake of origin and of the end of all things".<ref>Alfons Stübel, Max Uhle: ''Die Ruinenstätte von Tiahuanaco im Hochlande des alten Perú: Eine kulturgeschichtliche Studie auf Grund selbständiger Aufnahmen.'' Hiersemann, Leipzig 1892, Zweiter Teil, p.&nbsp;55 ([https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/stuebel_uhle1892/0212/image,info digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de]).</ref>

Some linguists think that linguistic, historical and archaeological evidence suggest that the name could be a borrowing of Aymara ''Wila Quta'' (''wila'' "blood"; ''quta'' "lake"), due to the sacrifices of [[camelid]]s that were celebrated at Lake Titiqaqa by pre-Incan Andean cultures that spoke Aymara.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cerrón Palomino |first=Rodolfo |url=https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/15064 |title=Las lenguas de los incas: el puquina, el aimara y el quechua |date=2013 |publisher=Peter Lang D |isbn=978-3-653-02485-2 |pages=279–293 |chapter=Viracocha: quechuización de una metonimia aimara |doi=10.3726/978-3-653-02485-2}}</ref>