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In [[Incan mythology]], '''Unu Pachakuti''' is the name of a flood that [[Viracocha]] caused to destroy the people around Lake [[Titicaca]], saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world.
In [[Inca mythology]], '''Unu Pachakuti''' is the name of a [[flood]] that [[Viracocha]] caused to destroy the people around [[Lake]] [[Titicaca]], saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world.

The process of destruction is linked with a new construction. It has a very deep meaning in the language and traditions. Some people would translate it as "revolution".
The process of destruction is linked with a new construction. It has a very deep meaning in the language and traditions. Some people would translate it as "revolution".


"The Inca’s supreme being and creator god, Con Tici (Kon Tiki) Viracocha, first created a race of giants, but they were unruly, so he destroyed them in a mighty flood and turned them to stone. Following the deluge, he created human beings from smaller stones.
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"In other versions of this story, the impious race is the pre-Inca civilization of the Tiahuanaco Americans about Lake Titicaca, the large high lake in the Andes. Viracocha drowns them and spares two, a man and a woman, to start the human race anew.
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Some versions of the Unu Pachakuti have the surviving man and woman floating to Lake Titicaca in a wooden box."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mythphile.com/2011/01/world-flood-myths/|title=World Flood Myths: Giants, Stones & New Life » Mythphile}}</ref>{{Unreliable-inline|date=March 2023|reason=WP:BLOG and WP:CIRCULAR}}

==See also==
*[[Flood]]
*[[Flood myth]]
*[[Inca mythology]]
*[[Pachakutic]]
*[[Viracocha]]

==References==
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[[Category:Inca mythology]]
[[Category:Inca mythology]]
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[[Category:Flood myths]]
[[Category:Flood myths]]



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Latest revision as of 16:37, 30 March 2023

In Inca mythology, Unu Pachakuti is the name of a flood that Viracocha caused to destroy the people around Lake Titicaca, saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world.

The process of destruction is linked with a new construction. It has a very deep meaning in the language and traditions. Some people would translate it as "revolution".

"The Inca’s supreme being and creator god, Con Tici (Kon Tiki) Viracocha, first created a race of giants, but they were unruly, so he destroyed them in a mighty flood and turned them to stone. Following the deluge, he created human beings from smaller stones. "In other versions of this story, the impious race is the pre-Inca civilization of the Tiahuanaco Americans about Lake Titicaca, the large high lake in the Andes. Viracocha drowns them and spares two, a man and a woman, to start the human race anew. Some versions of the Unu Pachakuti have the surviving man and woman floating to Lake Titicaca in a wooden box."[1][unreliable source?]

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  1. ^ "World Flood Myths: Giants, Stones & New Life » Mythphile".