There, "having accomplished all they had to do in this world, they ascended into Heaven," once more to form part of the Infinite Being; for the venerable authority whom I am following is careful to add, most explicitly, that "these Indians believed for a certainty that neither the Creator nor his sons were born of woman, but that they all were unchangeable and eternal."[1] [Footnote 1: Christoval de Molina, _Fables and Rites of the Incas_, p.

6.] Still more human does Viracocha become in the myth where he appears under the surnames _Tunapa_ and _Taripaca_.

The latter I have already explained to mean He who Judges, and the former is a synonym of Tocapu, as it is from the verb _ttaniy_ or _ttanini_, and means He who Finishes completes or perfects, although, like several other of his names, the significance of this one has up to the present remained unexplained and lost.

The myth has been preserved to us by a native Indian writer, Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti, who wrote it out somewhere about the year 1600.[1] [Footnote 1: _Relacion de Antiguedades deste Reyno del Piru_, por Don Joan de Santacruz Pachacuti Yamqui, passim.

Pachacuti relates the story of Tunapa as being distinctly the hero-myth of the Qquichuas.