Note 1155 — Chapter IV

The names of this god were Con-Illa-Tici-Uira-cocha, and he was the Pachayachachic, or Teacher of the World. Pacha is “time,” or “place;” also “the universe.” “Yachachic,” a teacher, from “Yachachini,” “I teach.” Con is said to signify the creating Deity (Betanzos, Garcia). According to Gomara, Con was a creative deity who came from the north, afterwards expelled by Pachacamac, and a modern authority (Lopez, p. 235) suggests that Con represented the “cult of the setting sun,” because Cunti means the west. Tici means a founder or foundation, and Illa is light, from Illani, “I shine:” “The Origin of Light” (Montesinos. Anonymous Jesuit. Lopez suggests “Ati,” an evil omen,—the Moon God); or, according to one authority, “Light Eternal” (The anonymous Jesuit). Vira is a corruption of Pirua, which is said by some authorities to be the name of the first settler, or the founder of a dynasty; and by others to mean a “depository,” a “place of abode;” hence a “dweller,” or “abider.” Cocha means “ocean,” “abyss,” “profundity,” “space.” Uira-cocha, “the Dweller in Space.” So that the whole would signify “God: the Creator of Light:” “the Dweller in Space: the Teacher of the World.”