Note 1184 — Chapter IV
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Mentioned by Calancha (471) and Arriaga as an oracle at the village of Tauca, in Conchucos. Brinton has built up a myth which he credits to the whole Peruvian people, on the strength of a meaning applied to the word Catequilla, which is erroneous. It is exactly the same grammatical error that those etymologists fell into who thought that Uira-cocha signified “foam of the sea.” (Myths of the New World, 154.)