What's with all the parallels with The Old Testement and Inca Mythology?

Question

The weird part is how these mythologies apparently existed BEFORE the coming of Europeans.

According to one book there are 503 parallels. In the mix: A worldwide flood that only one family survived, the first humans kicked out of paradise because they defied Viracocha (God), people turned to stone fleeing a city targeted for destruction, a Messiah that rises again in body.

Answer 1

In Inca mythology, Inti is the sun god,as well a patron deity of Tahuantinsuyu. His exact origin is not known. The most common story says he is the son of Viracocha, the god of civilization.

The Origin of the Inca People - An Incan Folktale
Is a complex analogy which serves the Incas by providing them with a divine history, a code of conduct pertaining to themselves and to nature, and a working model of the universe.

Answer 2

What makes you think the Old Testament came first?

It has been proven that ancient Egyptians had contact with the New World through the identification of both New World tobacco (nicotiana rustica), and cocaine (Erythroxylum coca) in 4,000 year old mummies.

This ideation that everything in the world comes from the Old Testament/New Testament, is called Eurocentric thinking. It should actually be called Catholic thinking as it was a staple of the Church for a thousand years. The Church appropriated countless native beliefs, subverted them, and made them part and parcel of the Church.

The fact that Inca Mythos existed before the coming of Europeans in non-remarkable. The fact that most people are just finding out about it is refreshing.

It is also refreshing to see Ancient Americans not being tied in the same sentence with the word "bloodthirsty." I challenge anyone to watch any program on the history channel that has anything to do with North American/South American Indians, and not hear the word, "bloodthirsty." This is the last vestage of institutional racism that Indians have to endure. No one ever challenges the fact that Romans were bloodthirsty when they fed Christians to the lions; or the Spanish being bloodthirsty when they slaughtered and maimed hundred of thousands of New World Indians. But I digress...

I am sure, in time, that it will be proven that civilization started here in the New World and was exported to the Old World. That is why each has so many old stories in common; they came from a single source here in the New World.

Answer 3

Actually, a lot of stories are similar the world over. The "Great Flood" can be found in almost any civilization, not just Jewish and Incan but also Hawaiian, Sumerian, Greek, German, etc. Many cultures also have stories regarding a paradise that was lost (again, the Greeks, the Germans, the Japanese, the Incans, the Jewis, etc). As for resurrection, that is also a central theme around the world (The Cult of Mithras, Odin, Jesus, Osiris, etc). These are central, human themes.

I'd have to see a complete list to know for sure, but I suspect that the vast majority of these "503" parallels also have parallels in most other beliefs throughout the world.

Answer 4

Surprise. Almost all the things in the Bible were "borrowed" from pre-existing religions. I wasn't aware of the Inca connection... What book are you referring to? I'd love to read it. But I am knowledgeable of other religions from which things were lifted - especially Goddess religions. (Ever wonder why the Bible writers don't like snakes, and why women are apparently the root of all evil? The boys were having a hard time shaking faith in the fact that Deity was female as well as male.) Anyway, the guys had a good thing going until the populace was given access to knowledge that formerly only priests had. Now we can put things in context, and long-hidden truths come out.

Answer 5

Well one day, they was a Great Religion Class in the sky. The room was filled with everyone. Shiva, Buddha, Allah, etc... Well, Viracocha was kind of the class slacker, and when the day came to turn in the ideas for their religions, Viracocha just copied off of Gods paper.
I'm pretty sure that's how it happened.

Answer 6

What now you think they are not connected with all the religions in the world?Do you even realize that these books where burned by the Vatican in masses?Now why would the Vatican care about some books that where from another country.......if they weren't things that they didn't want you to find
Guess what?you have been lied to!
Religion was a teaching and history manual before the Christians arrived,after the world got screwed
You do the math!

Answer 7

Do you have a reference or a few for your assertion? I am not aware of that the Incas left any form of writing to communicate their myths. It was my impression that they used knotted string as a form of communication and did not develop a form of writing.

It would be an interesting subject to explore if true.

Answer 8

Perhaps it would help to know that a few groups of people came to the Americas who had knowledge and written history of these events: The Jaredites, the Mulekites, the people of Lehi - to name a few. It is quite possible that these various groups were ancestors to the Incas and that this information was passed down (written or orally) to them.

Answer 9

Actually there are many different controversial inca myths. This is just one of many...

Answer 10

we will never know most inca `data was destroyed by the spanish .