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Manco Capac

This article refers to the first Sapa Inca, Manco Cápac. For Manco Cápac II, son of Inca Huayna Cápac, see Manco Inca Yupanqui
Manco Inca Yupanqui

Manco Inca Yupanqui was one of the Incas of Vilcabamba. He was also known as "Manco II" and "Manco Capac II" . Born in 1516, he was one of the sons of Huayna Capac and came from a lower class of the nobility....
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In Inca mythology

Inca mythology

Inca mythology includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological and helps to explain or symbolizes Inca beliefs.All Christian priests that followed the Spanish conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro burned the records of the Inca culture....
, Manco Cápac (Quechua

Quechua

Quechua is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Inca Empire, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire, and is still spoken today in various regional forms by some 10 million people through much of South America, in...
Manqo Qhapaq "splendid foundation", also Manku Qhapaq) was the first king of the Kingdom of Cuzco. There are several versions of the story of the origin of Manco Capac.

ne myth, Manco Cápac was a son of the sun god Inti

Inti

According to the Inca mythology, Inti is the sun god, as well a patron deity of Tahuantinsuyu. His exact origin is not known. The most common story says he is the son of Viracocha, the god of civilization....
and Mama Quilla, and brother of Pacha Kamaq

Pacha Kamaq

Pacha Kamaq was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac by the Ichma.Pacha Camac was believed to have created the first man and woman, but forgot to give them food and the man died....
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In Inca mythology

Inca mythology

Quechua

Inti legend

In one myth, Manco Cápac was a son of the sun god Inti

Inti

Pacha Kamaq

Pacha Kamaq was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac by the Ichma.Pacha Camac was believed to have created the first man and woman, but forgot to give them food and the man died....
. Manco Cápac himself was worshipped as a fire and a Sun God. According to the Inti legend, Manco Cápac and his siblings were sent up to the earth by the sun god and emerged from the cave of Pacaritambo carrying a golden staff, called ‘tapac-yauri’. Instructed to create a Temple of the Sun in the spot where the staff sank into the earth, they traveled to Cuzco via underground caves and there built a temple in honor of their father, the sun god Inti. (huaca
Huaca

In Quechua, a Indigenous peoples of the Americas language of South America, a huaca or wak'a is an object that represents something revered, typically a monument of some kind....
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Wiracocha legend

In the Wiracocha legend, Manco Cápac(Ayar Manco) was the son of Tici Viracocha

Viracocha

In pre-Inca and Inca mythology, Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra , was the creator of civilization, and one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon....
of Pacari-Tambu (today Pacaritambo, 25 km south of Cuzco). He and his brothers (Ayar Anca, Ayar Cachi and Ayar Uchu) and sisters (Mama Ocllo

Mama Ocllo

In Inca mythology, Mama Ocllo was deified as a Mother Goddess and fertility goddess. In one legend she was a daughter of Inti and Mama Quilla, and in another the daughter of Viracocha and Mama Cocha....
, Mama Huaco, Mama Raua and Mama Cura) lived near Cuzco

Cusco

||}Cusco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province....
at Pacari-Tambu, and they united their people with other tribes encountered in their travels. They sought to conquer the tribes of the Cuzco Valley. This legend also incorporates the golden staff, thought to have been given to Manco Cápac by his father. Accounts vary, but according to some versions of the legend, the young Manco jealously betrayed his older brothers, killed them, and became the ruler of Cuzco.

Life

Manco Capac ruled the Kingdom of Cuzco for about forty years, establishing a code of laws, and is thought to have abolished human sacrifice. The code of laws forbade marrying one's sister, but these laws did not apply to Inca nobility and so he married his sister, Mama Ocllo or Mama Cello. With her, Manco had a son named Roca

Sinchi Roca

Sinchi Roca was the second Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and a member of the H?rin dynasty. He was the son and successor of Manco Capac and the father of Lloque Yupanqui....
who became the next Sapa Inca. Manco Capac is thought to have reigned until about 1230, though some put his death in 1107.

Manco ruled before the title of Sapa Inca was invented, so in fact his title is Capac, which roughly translates as warlord.

In fiction

The well-known Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a Glasgow anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December, 1947....
comic book

Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
Son of the Sun, written by Don Rosa

Don Rosa

Keno Don Hugo Rosa is an United States comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other The Walt Disney Company characters....
, featured Manco Cápac as the original owner of various lost treasure

Treasure

Treasure is a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. Some jurisdictions legally define what constitutes treasure ....
s that serve as the comic's main plot devices, which Scrooge and his nephews are searching for.

Also in Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
's "The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the United States writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 , The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years....
," first chapter, first sentence, in which Melville compares the appearance of a fictional protagonist to Cápac's appearance out of Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It sits 3,812 m above sea level making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes in the world....
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