Note 139 — Chapter VII
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Markham [a], pp. 41-42. Caparó y Pérez, Proceedings of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, section i, pp. 121-22, interprets the name "Uirakocha" as composed of uira, "grease," and kocha "sea"; and, since grease is a symbol for richness and the sea for greatness, it "signified that which was great and rich."