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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]
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]
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[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.
Manco Capac and his companion, with the help of the four women, made a house. ... Painting of 1565 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. [25] [26] [27] View of Hatun Rumiyuq ...
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]
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.
At the death of her spouse, Topa Inca Yupanqui, in 1493, her son and heir, Huayna Capac, was still a minor. The favorite concubine of her late spouse, Ciqui Ollco, attempted to place her minor son Capac Huari on the throne by spreading planting the rumor, with assistance of a female relative, that the late Inca had willed the throne to Capac Huari.