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 He was one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon and seen as the creator of all things and according to legend, Viracocha created the universe, sun, moon, and stars, and even time by commanding the sun to move over the sky. 
 
			It is said that Viracocha 
			even created civilization itself. Viracocha was worshiped as the 
			god of the sun and of storms. 
 Viracocha was considered one of the most important, if not the MOST important deity in the Inca culture. According to mythological accounts, Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca during the time of darkness to bring light. 
 
			He made mankind out of 
			stone, but his first creation were brainless giants that displeased 
			him. 
 In 1549, Pedro Cieza de León, a Spanish conquistador was in search of the Inca empire when he and his followers crossed into Bolivia and came upon the ruins of Tiahuanaco located a quarter mile northeast of Puma Punku. 
 
			Tiahuanaco is a place few 
			people have actually heard of, but mainstream archaeologists believe 
			Tiahuanaco was once the capital of a civilization that had over 
			40,000 inhabitants at its peak and it was one of the most important 
			antecedents of the Inca Empire. 
 
 
			 
 Ancient legend suggests that Tiahuanaco was built as a religious site to celebrate the arrival of sky gods at Puma Punku. 
 During excavations in the 60’s a temple was unearthed at Tiahuanaco, present at this "sunken temple" several odd features are carved on the walls, the most interesting ones are the carvings of several faces, which according to some researchers depict all of the races of mankind: 
 The question asked here is, 
 
			These features are 
			nothing like the humans that inhabited this area of Bolivia and they 
			represent almost every shape of human heads/faces on our planet. 
 
			Why would the designers 
			of this statue depict their most important God with features unlike 
			their own? 
 
 
			 
 
			The beard, once believed 
			to be a mark of a prehistoric European influence and quickly fueled 
			and embellished by spirits of the colonial era, had its single 
			significance in the continental insular culture of Mesoamerica.  
 
			Written on this ceramic 
			piece you will find, according to some researchers, Sumerian 
			cuneiform, and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphs, and this is actually a 
			big deal because according to researchers, Sumerians and the ancient 
			people who inhabited Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku were never 
			connected... 
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