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Viracocha
Viracocha was the creator god of the Inca and other Andean peoples, believed to have risen from Lake Titicaca and made the sun, moon, stars and the first humans. The Incas honoured him in Cusco alongside the sun god Inti, and the eighth Inca ruler took his name.
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