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Viracocha creator god

illustration of Viracocha, the Inca creator deity, emerging from swirling sacred waters with flowing hair and beard, holding the radiant sun and moon aloft. Around him, stars scatter across the sky. In the foreground, two stone giants struggle in turbulent floodwaters, reaching toward the deity as towering Andean mountains rise behind them.

Viracocha’s Flood: A South American Myth of Rebirth

Long before the sun rose over the towering peaks of the Andes, before the first llama grazed the mountain grasslands, and before human voices echoed through the valleys, there was only darkness. The world existed in a state of profound chaos formless, purposeless, wrapped in an eternal night. Into this void stepped Viracocha, the great creator deity, the one who
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