Surrounded by the peaks of the Andean cordillera, the deep blue waters of Lake Titicaca have long provided refreshment and nourishment to the people who live along its shores. From prehistoric times, the Andean peoples have held Titicaca to be a sacred place, the source from which all life originated and the site where the divine manifests its presence.
In this interdisciplinary study, Veronica Salles-Reese explores how Andean myths of cosmic and ethnic origins centered on Lake Titicaca evolved from pre-Inca times to the enthronement of the Virgin of Copacabana in 1583. She begins by...
Surrounded by the peaks of the Andean cordillera, the deep blue waters of Lake Titicaca have long provided refreshment and nourishment to the peopl...
![From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana: Representation of the Sacred at Lake Titicaca [Title Page Only] Salles-Reese, Verónica 9780292777132 University of Texas Press](/9780292777132_from_viracocha_to_the_virgin_of_copacabana_representation_of_the_sacred_at_lake_titicaca_title_page_only.jpg "From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana: Representation of the Sacred at Lake Titicaca [Title Page Only]")
