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Prophecies of South America
Part
Two: Inca Prophecies
by Robert A.
Nelson
In the 14th century, almost 200 years before Pizzaro arrived to conquer
the Incas, a young prince had a dream in which a spirit appeared and
identified itself as Viracocha Inca, son of the sun and brother of
the first king of the Inca dynasty. The spirit said that a northern
tribe, the Chancas, was preparing a revolution against the monarchy,
and serious consequences would follow. The Chancas did rebel, and the
prince subdued them. But rebellion was common, and the Inca priests
concluded that a much greater danger was implied in the warning. The
priests interpreted another meaning: One day, bearded foreigners who
were “masters of the lightning” would arrive from the sea
to herald the fall of the empire.
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The
prince became the eighth Inca king, and the people gave him the name
Viracocha. He commissioned the construction of a temple with twelve
winding halls leading upward to a statue of a tall, bearded man
dressed in a tunic. He held a chained, ferocious animal that had the
claws of a leopard. King Viracocha carved the statue with his own
hands in order to create an exact image of the spirit in his veridic
dream. Several omens occurred as the years passed. One day in the sky
over the capitol city of Cuzco, a condor (the sacred messenger of the
sun) was attacked by a swarm of falcons. The wounded condor fell into
the city square and was given medical aid by the priests, but it died
anyway. The Inca sages were greatly disturbed because they saw it as
an omen of bad times to come.
In
an audience before Huayna Capac, the 11th Inca king, a soothsayer
interpreted an awesome sign that had appeared in the sky: three halos
(red, green and brown) encircling the moon. The sage said:
“The
Moon, your Mother, tells you that Pachacamac, the Creator and giver
of Life, threatens your Family, your Realm, and subjects. Your sons
will wage a cruel War, those of royal Blood will die, and the Empire
will disappear.”
Since
there were only twelve halls in the Temple of Viracocha, and Huayna
Capac was the 11th king, he correctly feared that the kingdom would
end with its next ruler. Huayna Capac also worried about a party of
light-skinned, bearded foreigners who had come ashore to the north,
wielding strange weapons that erupted with fire, as spoken of in
earlier prophecies.
On
his deathbed, Huayna Capac addressed his priests and officials thus:
“Our father the sun has revealed to me that after a reign of
twelve Incas, his own children, there will appear in our country an
unknown race of men who will subdue our empire. They doubtless belong
to the people whose messengers have appeared on our shores. Be sure
of it, these foreigners will reach this country and fulfill the
prophecy.”
The
foreign messengers were Vasco Nunez de Balboa and company, who
arrived at Tumbes in 1511. The Spaniards returned in 1532, well armed
for conquest under the command of Francisco Pizzaro. Within a few
years after the death of Huayna Capac from smallpox, his two sons
went to war against each other. Atahualpa won and assumed the throne
as the 12th Inca, just in time to lose the empire to Pizzaro on
November 16, 1532.
The
Q'ero (Long-haired ones), the last of the Incas, recently revealed
their prophecies of the End of Time to Alberto Villoldo, who has
published them. The Q'ero are awaiting the next Pachacuti (He Who
Transforms the Earth), and expect it to be the end of the world as we
know it. The signs of upheaval have begun, and will last four years.
A new humanity will emerge from the chaos. The prophecies announce
the beginning of a new “millenium of gold,” and speak of “a
rip in the fabric of time,” through which will come a luminous
being. The signs of the times include: the drying-up of high mountain
cochas (lagoons), the near-extinction of the condor, and great solar
heat. Afterwards, we shall emerge into the fifth Sun.
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