the hill with the three openings or windows, called Maras,[1] Sutic, and Ccapac.
The legend relates how, out of the Maras window came a tribe with the same name, from the Sutic window came a tribe named Tampu. Out of the central Ccapac window came four august personages, all bearing the title of Ayar, a designation of several of the ancient kings. There were Manco, the princely; Ayar Auca,[2] the fighting or joyful Ayar; Cachi, the salt Ayar; and Uchu, the pepper Ayar. With them were their four wives, Occlo, the august princess; Huaco, the warlike princess; Ipacura,[3] the elder aunt; and Raua.
The four children of the sun, with their four wives, consulted together and came to a momentous decision: 'We are born strong and wise, and with the people who will follow us we are powerful. We will go forth to seek more fertile lands, and when we find them we will subdue the people, making war upon all who do not receive us as their Lords.' There was a considerable force at their command besides the two tribes who are said to have issued from the windows on the hill of Tampu-Tocco, named Maras and Tampu. Eight other ayllus or lineages were mustered under the banner of the Ayars, whose names were preserved. The
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