South+America

One of these leaders went onto the larger island of [|Lake Titicaca] where he found a race of white people with beards and fought them until he killed all of them. Afterwards he and his subjects battled the Canas and the Canchas. After these lords performed notable exploits they turned against each other. They sought the support of the Inca Viracocha, then reigning at Cuczo (Peru), and he made an alliance with Cari at Chucuito and displayed such adroitness that he made himself master over the many peoples of the Collao without fighting. //A.G.H.//
 * Z**apana and Cari were two pre-Inca leaders among the Indians of the Collao who conquered many forests, pucaras, of the Indians. Zapana, a great chief, helped stabilize the Indians of the Collao after the early pre-Inca period by bringing many under his command.


 * T**here are differences in the natures of the gods of South American mythology; there may be a comparison between the nature-gods worshipped in the temples of the Incas and those anonymous spirits conjured up in their huts by magicians in the Amazonian or Guiana areas. Also there existed a difference between the supernatural beings envisaged by the clergy of refined civilization and those whose anger the average tribal people tried to appease. Perhaps a major reason for this difference was fear: the clergy were more protected by civilization than separated tribesmen who felt more at the domination of imagined gods or nature. The clergy probably were more educated too. Such reasoning could also apply to the difference between the nature-gods of the Incas and the spirits of the magicians: nature-gods were part of the Inca religion while the spirits served the magicians' personal interests, an example of high an low magic. Characteristically the religious beliefs of most Incas might be described as a rather crude [|animism]since they were very concerned with endowing the individual personality with obscure and mysterious forces apparently believed to dwell in certain objects. //A.G.H.//

//﻿**H**api-nunus were made reference to demons, literally, seizers of women's bosoms that made mournful cries in the middle of the night, "We are defeated. We are defeated. Ah that, we should lose our subjects." These creatures, spirits, were heard by the original inhabitants of the area who during the day were troubled from clashing with others because of shortages of food and land.//

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 * T**hunder followed Inti as the second deity in the Incan pantheon. He is considered master of the thunderbolt, hail, and rain. He traversed the celestial sky carrying a club and sling, and the noise made when he uses them was heard as the rumbling storm. People thought they saw his outline in the stars of the Great Bear, near a river; the Milky Way, from which he drew water to pour on the earth. //A.G.H.//

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