He was also the hero-god of the Aymaras, and about him, says Father Ludovico Bertonio, "they to this day relate many fables and follies." _Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara_, s.v.Another name he bore in Aymara was _Ecaco_, which in that language means, as a common noun, an ingenious, shifty man of many plans (_Bertonio, Vocabulario_, s.v.).

"Thunnupa," as Bertonio spells it, does not lend itself to any obvious etymology in Aymara, which is further evidence that the name was introduced from the Qquichua.

This is by no means a singular example of the identity of religious thought and terms between these nations.

In comparing the two tongues, M.Alcide D'Orbigny long since observed: "On retrouve meme a peu pres un vingtieme des mots qui ont evidemment la meme origine, surtout ceux qui expriment les idees religieuses." _L'Homme Americain, considere sous ses Rapports Physiologiques et Moraux_, Tome i, p.

322 (Paris, 1839).