These people associated the planet Venus with a goddess of dawn, flowers, and virginity who was named Chasca. According to this people's myth system, the current race of humans replaced an earlier, stupider race of giants that had been made from stone. Their underworld is populated by a race of demons who share a collective name with their leader, Supay. Many of these people's myths survived through the writings of (*) Garcilaso de la Vega. In a myth of these people, the Milky Way was stored in a jug that produced rain when hit by the slingshot of their god Ilyapa. Their mythical first ruler, Manco Capac, was sent to earth by the sun god Inti. For 10 points, Viracocha was the creator god of which pre-Columbian civilization, which built temples at Cuzco and Machu Pi
These people associated the planet Venus with a goddess of dawn, flowers, and virginity who was named Chasca. According to this people's myth system, the current race of humans replaced an earlier, stupider race of giants that had been made from stone. Their underworld is populated by a race of demons who share a collective name with their leader, Supay. Many of these people's myths survived through the writings of (*) Garcilaso de la Vega. In a myth of these people, the Milky Way was stored in a jug that produced rain when hit by the slingshot of their god Ilyapa. Their mythical first ruler, Manco Capac, was sent to earth by the sun god Inti. For 10 points, Viracocha was the creator god of which pre-Columbian civilization, which built temples at Cuzco and Machu Picchu?
These people associated the planet Venus with a goddess of dawn, flowers, and virginity who was named Chasca.
Incans [or Incan mythology]