[176-2] _Con_ or _Cun_ I have already explained to mean thunder, _Con tici_, the mythical thunder vase. Pachacamà is doubtless, as M. Leonce Angrand has suggested, from _ppacha_, source, and _camà_, all, the Source of All things (Desjardins, _Le Pérou avant la Conq. Espagnole_, p. 23, note). But he and all other writers have been in error in considering this identical with _Pachacámac_, nor can the latter mean _creator of the world_, as it has constantly been translated. It is a participial adjective from _pacha_, place, especially the world, and _camac_, present participle of _camani_, I animate, from which also comes _camakenc_, the soul, and means _animating the world_. It was never used as a proper name. The following trochaic lines from the Quichua poem translated in the previous chapter, show its true meaning and correct accent:-- Pāchă rūrăc, World creating, Pāchă cāmăc, World animating, Viracocha, Viracocha, Camasunqui, He animates thee. The last word is the second transition, present tense, of _camani_, while _camac_ is its present participle. [177-1] Ulloa, _Mémoires Philosophiques sur l'Amérique_, i. p. 105. [178-1] Acosta, _Hist. of the New World_, bk. v. chap. 4, bk. vi. chap. 19, Eng. trans., 1704. [179-1] The name is derived from _tampu_, corrupted by the Spaniards to _tambo_, an inn, and _paccari_ morning, or _paccarin_, it dawns, which also has the figurative signification, it is born. It may therefore mean either Lodgings of the Dawn, or as the Spaniards usually translated it, House of Birth, or Production, _Casa de Producimiento_. [179-2] The names given by Balboa (_Hist. du Pérou_, p. 4) and Montesinos (_Ancien Pérou_, p. 5) are Manco, Cacha, Auca, Uchu. The meaning of Manco is unknown. The others signify, in their order, messenger, enemy or traitor, and the little one. The myth of Viracocha is given in its most antique form by Juan de Betanzos, in the _Historia de los Ingas_, compiled in the first years of the conquest from the original songs and legends. It is quoted in Garcia, _Origen de los Indios_, lib. v. cap. 7. Balboa, Montesinos, Acosta, and others have also furnished me some incidents. Whether Atachuchu mentioned in the last chapter was not another name of Viracocha may well be questioned. It is every way probable. [179-3] _Hist. des Incas_, liv. iii. chap. 25. [180-1] It is compounded of _vira_, fat, foam (which perhaps is akin to _yurac_, _white_), and _cocha_, a pond or lake. [180-2] See Desjardins, _Le Pérou avant la Conq. Espagnole_, p. 67. [180-3] Gomara, _Hist. de las Indias_, cap. 119, in Müller. [181-1] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, i. p. 302.