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Identifier: mythsofmexicoper01spen (find matches)
Title: The myths of Mexico and Peru
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indian mythology Indians of Mexico Indians of South America Indian mythology Indians of South America
Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hut when Huathiacuri came in he made a very loud
noise and frightened him, and he began to run away.
As he ran Huathiacuri turned him into a deer. His
wife, who had followed him, was turned into a
stone, with her head on the ground and her feet in
the air, because she had given her husband such bad
advice.
The four remaining eggs on the mountain-top then
opened, and four falcons issued, which turned into four
great warriors. These warriors performed many miracles,
one of which consisted in raising a storm which
swept away the rich Indian's house in a flood to
the sea.

Paricaca

Having assisted in the performance of several
miracles, Paricaca set out determined to do great deeds.
He went to find Caruyuchu Huayallo, to whom
children were sacrificed. He came one day to a village
where a festival was being celebrated, and as he was in
very poor clothes no one took any notice of him or
offered him anything, till a young girl, taking pity on
him, brought him chicha to drink. In gratitude Paricaca
told her to seek a place of safety for herself, as the

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His wife at first indignantly denied the accusation
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PARICACA

village would be destroyed after five days, but she was
to tell no one of this. Annoyed at the inhospitality of
the people, Paricaca then went to a hill-top and sent down
a fearful storm and flood, and the whole village was
destroyed. Then he came to another village, now San
Lorenzo. He saw a very beautiful girl, Choque Suso,
crying bitterly. Asking her why she wept, she said the
maize crop was dying for want of water. Paricaca at
once fell in love with this girl, and after first damming up
the little water there was, and thus leaving none for the
crop, he told her he would give her plenty of water if
she would only return his love. She said he must
get water not only for her own crop but for all the
other farms before she could consent. He noticed a
small rill, from which, by opening a dam, he thought he
might get a sufficient supply of water for the farms.
He then got the assistance of the birds in the hills, and
animals such as snakes, lizards, and so on, in removing

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