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COCHA AND VIRACOCHA.
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to Viracocha above all doubt.[1] The goddess Cocha is represented as carrying an urn full of water and snow on her head. Her brother Viracocha breaks the urn, that its contents may spread over the earth. Here is the hymn, which is composed in nineteen short verses or lines:
- Fair Princess,
- Thy urn
- Thy brother
- Shatters.
- At the blow
- It thunders, lightens
- Flashes;
- But thou, Princess,
- Rainest down
- Thy waters.
- At the same time
- Hailest,
- Snowest.
- World-former,
- World-animator,
- Viracocha,
- To this office
- ↑ This hymn was found by Garcilasso (see Lib. ii. cap. xvii., pp. 50, 51, in Rycaut's translation) among the papers of Father Blas Valera, and has been freed by Tschudi from the misprints, &c., that disfigured it in the printed editions of Garcilasso and all subsequent reproductions. See Tschudi, Vol. II. p. 381.
