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American Hero-Myths

CHAPTER V
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These he supplied with what was necessary for their support, and taught them the arts of war and peace.

For these reasons they venerated him as a god, and constructed for his worship a sumptuous temple, a league and a half from the present city of Lima.[1] [Footnote 1: Francisco Lopez de Gomara, _Historia de las Indias_, p.

233 (Ed.

Paris, 1852).] This myth of the conflict of the two brothers is too similar to others I have quoted for its significance to be mistaken.

Unfortunately it has been handed down in so fragmentary a condition that it does not seem possible to assign it its proper relations to the cycle of Viracocha legends.
As I have hinted, we are not sure of the meaning of the name Con, nor whether it is of Qquichua origin.


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