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Manco Cápac was born in Tamputoco, which according to some [4] is located in the present-day province of Paruro, in Peru. The city usually served as a refuge for many people escaping the Aymaran invasions [5] of the Altiplano. His father was named Apu Tambo. [2] Manco Cápac and his family lived a nomadic lifestyle. [6]
Manco Inca, one of the more than 50 sons of Huayna Capac, was born in Cuzco. [2] When Atahualpa 's troops took the city under the command of General Quizquiz , they killed the descendants of Huayna Capac, the Huascar supporters, and anyone who could try to take the place of the Inca.
The former maintained full control of religious and government functions from Manco Capac until Capac Yupanqui, who suffered a coup by Inca Roca with the support of Hanan Cusco members. From then on, the Hurin dynasty was in charge of the priesthood while the Hanan dynasty took control of civil, political, economic, judicial, and martial activity.
Portrait of Manco Capac (c. 1615), by Antonio de Herrera.During the exodus from Lake Titicaca, a caravan of Puquina-speaking immigrants from the crumbling Tiwanaku state stumbled upon Pacaritambo, the pacarina of the Maras people, since they originated "without parents" from one of the "windows" called Maras t'uqu.
After that, Ayar Manco became known as Manco Capac, the founder of the Inca. It is said that he and his sisters built the first Inca homes in the valley with their own hands. When the time came, Manco Capac turned to stone like his brothers before him. His son, Sinchi Roca, became the second emperor of the Inca. [27]
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote that there was a hill referred to as Tambotoco, about 33 kilometers from Cuzco, where eight men and women emerged as the original Inca's. The men were Manco Capac, Ayar Auca, Ayar Cachi, and Ayar Uchu. The women were Mama Ocllo, Mama Huaco, Mama Ipacura, and Mama Raua. [9]
[9] the Spaniards agreed in Xaquixaguana, near the city of Cuzco, to make Manco Cápac as indigenous sovereign, son of Huayna Capac, 20 years old, [10] from Charcas. The young prince was eager to collaborate with the expulsion of Cusco from the troops of the Inca general Quizquiz, Atahualpa's trusted man and defender of a rival panaka.
According to the legend, Mama Ocllo and Manco Capac were given a golden scepter to help them find an ideal place to settle and worship the sun. [19] After their wanderings, the pair descended into a valley. They decided to build the city of Cuzco after the golden rod they brought with them sank into the soil and disappeared. [20]