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Visual depiction of Viracocha

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Viracocha

Inca creator god


rising from Lake Titicaca, the sun and moon in his hands as he places them in the sky, mankind and animals forming at his feet

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.