[1148] Basadre’s measurement is 32 inches by 21.
[1149] Quoted by Garcilasso de la Vega, Pte. I. lib. III. cap. 1.
[1150] Basadre mentions a carved stone brought from the department of Ancachs, in Peru, which had some resemblances to the stones at Tiahuanacu. A copy of it is in possession of Señor Raimondi.
[1151] [Cf. plans and views in Squier’s Peru, ch. 24.—Ed.]
[1152] Cap. 94.
[1153] See page 238.
[1154] The name of the place where these remains are situated is Concacha, from the Quichua word “Cuncachay,”—the act of holding down a victim for sacrifice; literally, “to take by the neck.”
[1155] The names of this god were Con-Illa-Tici-Uira-cocha, and he was the Pachayachachic, or Teacher of the World. Pacha is “time,” or “place;” also “the universe.” “Yachachic,” a teacher, from “Yachachini,” “I teach.” Con is said to signify the creating Deity (Betanzos, Garcia). According to Gomara, Con was a creative deity who came from the north, afterwards expelled by Pachacamac, and a modern authority (Lopez, p. 235) suggests that Con represented the “cult of the setting sun,” because Cunti means the west. Tici means a founder or foundation, and Illa is light, from Illani, “I shine:” “The Origin of Light” (Montesinos. Anonymous Jesuit. Lopez suggests “Ati,” an evil omen,—the Moon God); or, according to one authority, “Light Eternal” (The anonymous Jesuit). Vira is a corruption of Pirua, which is said by some authorities to be the name of the first settler, or the founder of a dynasty; and by others to mean a “depository,” a “place of abode;” hence a “dweller,” or “abider.” Cocha means “ocean,” “abyss,” “profundity,” “space.” Uira-cocha, “the Dweller in Space.” So that the whole would signify “God: the Creator of Light:” “the Dweller in Space: the Teacher of the World.”
Some authors gave the meaning of Uira-cocha to be “foam of the sea:” from Uira (Huira), “grease,” or “foam,” and Cocha, “ocean,” “sea,” “lake.” Garcilasso de la Vega pointed out the error. In compound words of a nominative and genitive, the genitive is invariably placed first in Quichua; so that the meaning would be “a sea of grease,” not “grease of the sea.” Hence he concludes that Uira-cocha is not a compound word, but simply a name, the derivation of which he does not attempt to explain. Blas Valera says that it means “the will and power of God;” not that this is the signification of the word, but that such were the godlike attributes of the being who was known by it. Acosta says that to Ticsi Uira-cocha they assigned the chief power and command over all things. The anonymous Jesuit tells us that Illa Ticsi was the original name, and that Uira-cocha was added later.
Of these names, Illa Ticci appears to have been the most ancient.