ABSTRACT
FABLE OF THE SECOND AGE, AND CREATION OF THE BARBAROUS INDIANS ACCORDING TO THEIR ACCOUNT.
It is related that everything was destroyed in the flood called uftu pachacuti1• It must now be known that Viracocha Pachayachachi, when he destroyed that land as has been already recounted, preserved three men, one of them named Taguapaca, that they might serve and help him in the creation of new people who had to be made in the second age after the deluge, which was done in this manner. The flood being passed and the land dry, Viracocha determined to people it a second time, and, to make it more perfect, he decided upon creating luminaries to give it light. With this object he went, with his servants, to a great lake in the Collao, in which there is an island called Titicaca, the
1 Uiiu paclzacuti would mean the world (jJaclta) overturned (cutl) by water (uiiu). Probably a word coined by the priests, after putting leading questions about a universal deluge.
