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Date: July 04, 2019 02:03PM
Here is another source about that myth from Peru.
'The Coming of the White People': Reflections on the Mythologisation of History in Latin America
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3339268?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents"In recent years, doubts have increasingly been voiced regarding the authenticity of this story. In particular, the Polish ethnohistorians, Marcin Mroz and Mariusz Ziolkowski, have argued that it requires serious qualification. Mroz (1991) points out that the earliest accounts of the conquest of Peru make no reference to the identification of the Spanish with Viracocha. It took some time for the confused events of the 1530s to settle into an agreed narrative, and the first version that identifies the bearded white men with Viracocha is that of Cieza de Leon (1553). Cieza mentions the myth that the god Viracocha had gone away across the sea, but is sceptical about the belief (which he also mentions) that the Spanish are called Virachcha because they came from the sea."
Mroz, M. (1991), 'Los Viracochas de la conquista: entre un mita andino y un prejuicio cristiano', in El culto estatal del imperio inca, Ziolkowski, M., pp. 91-108, Studia i Materialy 2 Cesla (Warsaw)
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