Manco Capac

Manco Capac, founder of the Inca dynasty (the dates of his reign are unknown). In Inca myth Manco Capac emerged, together with his three brothers and four sisters, from three caves at Pacariqtambo, the Inca place of origin in the Peruvian highlands, a few miles southwest of the valley of Cuzco. Manco married his sister Mama Ocllo, founding the Inca bloodline, and led his siblings into the valley of Cuzco, establishing the city of Cuzco and the Inca dynasty around 1200. According to the legend, at the end of his life, Manco Capac turned into a stone that became one of the most sacred huacas of the Incas.

See alsoIncas, The .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sources on Manco Capac and the founding of the Inca dynasty include John H. Rowe, "Inca Culture at the Time of the Spanish Conquest," in Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 2 (1946), pp. 183-330; Burr Cartwright Brundage, The Empire of the Inca (1963); Gary Urton, The History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Incas (1990).

Additional Bibliography

Espinoso Apolo, Manuel. Hablan los Incas: Crónicas de Collapiña, Supno, Inca Garcilasco, Felipe Guaman Poma, Titu Cusi y Juan Santacruz Pachacuti. Quito, Ecuador: Taller de Estudios Andinos, 2001.

Minelli, Laura Laurencich, ed. The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000–1534. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

Vilcapoma I., José Carlos. El retorno de los incas: De Manco Cápac a Pachacútec. Peru: Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina, Instituto de Investigaciónes y Desarrollo Andino, 2002.

                                  Gordon F. McEwan