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Layered world, reciprocity
Upper, this, and inner worlds in a widespread scheme. Humans feed gods, huacas, and the dead. Inca state religion is not all Andean religion.
Viracocha and Inti are not universal Andean names. World-turning is not a biblical flood.
Layered pacha, reciprocity, huacas and ancestors. Inca cult of the sun and Cusco is an imperial layer on a wider Andean field.
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Ordering figures
Viracocha in some accounts. Not everyone’s creator.
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Three layers, locally varied
Upper, this, inner or lower.
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Gods, huacas, dead
Persons one feeds. The Inca list is selective.
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Human in ayni
Reciprocity is the slot.
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Ancestors who remain
Not a reincarnation system.
- Time
- World-turnings and ongoing exchange. Not a final judgment.
- Agents
- Gods, huacas, ancestors, the living. The Inca sun is one power among others.
- Human slot
- A party to reciprocity. The empire added obligations to ruler and sun.
- Break
- Unfed powers and turned ages. Not an equal anti-creator.