S6E5 - Khipu Me in Mind: Cavillaca and Cuniraya Viracocha
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The History of the Incan Empire
Many of the stories of the Incans were destroyed or forgotten. They were eventually written down mostly by colonial governments and Christian priests who had come from Europe to South America. The people of this area had epic stories just like the Iliad and the Odyssey but we only have very few bits and pieces of them surviving today. Today's story is from a region called Warichari that did get to write down their own stories and in their own language Quechua.
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