LOS OJOS DE IMAYMANA, ETC. 467 
Here we seem to have a perfect Trinity, whose names need not 
always be confined to one form, aS we may See in the variants used 
by Molina himself in some of the prayers reproduced in this text; 
as for instance in this: 
Aticgi Viracochan (1), caylla Viracochan (2), tocapu acnupu Vira- 
cochan (3), camac churac, cari cachun, uarmicachun nispa llutac, 
etc. (4). 
We have then here three Gods:—Aticci Viracocha, Imaymana 
Viracocha, and Tocapo Viracocha, bisexual, as we learn from the ex- 
pression—cavi cachun, uarmt cachun—be they male or be they fe- 
male. 
Let us first find out if these names are susceptible of being ex- 
plained etymologically. 
Garcilaso de la Vega (5) does not admit the popular versién— 
Foam or Fat of the Sea—As he very justly observes, the Quichua 
constructi6n would oblige us to translate—Sea of Fat. The fact is 
that the name includes the word Cocha—Sea—and that sutfices to 
indicate that we have to do with 4 Water-god. Muwyra may or may 
not have to do with the former part of this compound name, but 
if it has it means something akin to creator. The stem Cocha is a 
water word meaning.«water-maker» (6) and Piva may mean « fer- 
tility». If so the name Vzvacocha would stand for. —The Water-maker 
of Fertility—another Roman Neptune, or Mexican Tlaloc. In any 
case Huiva or Huyra is one of many cosmogonic words. (7). 
One thing is pretty certain, that the name Vzvacocha is more or 
less the equivalent of our word God, though of course in the sense 
of Neptune and not of /ove. The qualifying word Aficgcz seems 
to mean Omnipotent or Almighty, from Ati—powerful, and ¢cz—as 
is said—a well known Quichua suffix. 
This Viracocha, is three Gods in one, not four, a fact which goes 
to prove that he was a God of the Aymara or Tia-Huanaco, and 
not of the Quichua or Cuzco mythology. 
(4) Aticci Viracocha—The water-god, the Almighty, «as they say». 
(2) Caylla Viracocha--Perfect God. 
(3) Tocapu acnupu Viracocha---God, Lord of the OpenIng, Lord of the Rites. 
(4) Let the sex of the God be what it may. 
(5) Com. Real. 4 Part. Lib. V. Ch. 24. 
(6) Co-- water, cha--verbal particle. 
(7) Huyra--End of all things. Gonz. Holguin. 
