VIRACOCHA Thesupreme deity of the Incas, Viracocha was a storm god and a sun god, who was represented as wearing the sun for a crown, with thunderbolts in his hands, andtears descending from his eyes as rain. Like Odin, his wandered the earth disguised asa beggar, and wept when he saw the plight of the creatures he had created, but knewthat he must sustain them.Viracocha made the earth, the stars, the sky andmankind, but his first creation displeased him, so he destroyed it with a flood, and made anew, better one, taking to his wanderings as a beggar, teaching his new creations the rudiments of civilisation, as well as working numerous miracles. Viracocha eventually disappeared across the Pacific Ocean, and never returned.