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that are in that region." The repopulation of the Earth began by the Creator first fashioning out of clay the image of one person of each nation; "then he gave life and a soul to each one. men as well as women, and directed them to their designated places on Earth." Those who failed to obey the commandments regarding worship and behavior were turned into stones. The Creator also had with him on the island of Titicaca the Moon and the Sun. whence they had come on his orders. When all that was needed to replenish the Earth was done, the Moon and the Sun rose up to heaven. The two divine assistants of the Creator of All are presented in another version as his two sons. "Having created the tribes and nations, and assigned dresses and languages to them." Father Molina wrote, "the Creator ordered his two sons to go in different directions and introduce civilization." The old son. Ymaymana Viracocha (meaning "in whose power all things are placed"), went to give civilization to the mountain peoples; the younger son, Topaco Viracocha ("maker of things"), was ordered to go by way of the coastal plains. When the two brothers completed their work they met at the seashore, "whence they ascended to heaven." Garcilaso de la Vega, who was born in Cuzco to a Spanish father and an Inca mother soon after the conquest, recorded two legends. According to one the Great God came down from the heavens to Earth to instruct mankind, giving it laws and precepts. He "placed his two children at lake Titicaca," gave them a "wedge of gold," and instructed them to settle where it would sink into the ground, which was at Cuzco. The other legend related that "after the waters of the deluge had subsided, a certain man appeared in the country of Tiahuanacu, which is to the south of Cuzco. This man was so powerful that he divided the world into four parts, and gave them to four men whom he honored with the title of king." One of them, whose epithetname was Manco Capac ("king and lord" in the Quechua language of the Incas), began kingship in Cuzco. The various versions speak of two phases of creation by Viracocha. Juan de Betanzos (Suma y Narration de los Incas) recorded a Quechua tale wherein the Creator god, "on the first occasion, made the heavens and the earth"; he also created people—Mankind. But "this people did some sort of wrong to Viracocha, and he was angered by it... and those first people and their chief he converted into stones in punishment." Then, after a period of darkness, he made at Tiahuanacu new men and women, out of stones. He gave them tasks and abilities and told them where to go. Remaining with only two aides, he sent one