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Updated: April 30, 2025

Now, Christoval has got hold of a variant of Garcilasso's narrative, which, in Garcilasso, has plenty of humour and human nature. According to Christoval it was not the Prince, later Inca Uiracocha, who beheld the apparition, but the Inca Uiracocha's son, Prince of Wales, as it were, of the period, later the Inca Yupanqui. Garcilasso corrects Christoval.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion

Uiracocha saw the apparition, as Père Acosta rightly says, and Yupanqui was not the son but the grandson of this Inca Uiracocha. Uiracocha's own son was Pachacutec, which simply means 'Revolution, 'they say, by way of by-word Pachamcutin, which means "the world changes." Christoval's form of the story is peculiarly gratifying in one way.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion