The national history of Peru is divided in two very well delimited phases:

The first phase: The Tawantinsuyo, being the independent phase from the arrival of the first settlers to the Andes area (Andes: a mountain range that runs through all of South America) until the Spanish invasion.

The second stage: Peru, being the dependent phase from the Spanish invasion until our days.

During the first stage, that lasted more than 14,000 years, an epic achievement made possible the organization and development of the settlers, until the creation of a great Andean civilization: the Inka Empire, which was latter disorganized by Spanish soldiers and functionaries since the year 1532.

In the Inka Empire religion played a very important roll because the mayor and minor divinities and its assistants and the cultural heroes, to whom cult was given, insured well being or disgrace to the community. This made necessary to maintain the divinities happy through diverse tributes and ceremonies on their behalf.

Wiracocha God was one of major diffusion in the Andes and was imposed to the the empire´s inhabitants since the beginning of the Expansion Period which in the year 700 After Christ.

In the Inka Empire, Wiracocha God maintained its position of principal god and seven temples were built and dedicated to him.

Wiracocha, the master of everything that was created, was also known by the name of APU KONTIKY WIRACOCHA, supreme master of soil water and fire, which, for the Andean dwellers, were the three elements that composed everything that was created or existed.

It is the god who, after the earth was created and the apparition of men from its interiors, through caves, craters, water springs, lakes, etc., as well as the apparition of living things such as plants and animals, organized everything, enabling men, animals and plants their life on earth.

This god of all the Andes -who was an spiritual being and whose location in the universe was not determined and was outside of the visible world- was no obstacle for being represented in human form, wearing a robe whose length went down to his feet, holding a staff in his right hand as a command symbol and with ray beams in his left hand as a symbol of his power, which was the motive by which this god was placed in the Inka Empire above the sun and the moon, in spite of being considered the latter two as the principal gods.

Wiracocha was the protecting god of the Andean society.

Wiracocha -‘Sir’ in quechua- name of the supreme god of heaven, was worshiped by the Incas of the Peruvian pre-Colombian period. It was the creator of the other divinities of earth and of men. Although this powerful divinity was unmentionable in their religion, he was honored with various titles such as Ilya-Tiqsi Wiraqoca Pacayacaciq (‘Ancient Foundation’, ‘Sir’, ‘Master of the Universe’). Wiracocha (or Tunpa) was a creative divinity responsible for giving form as well as for populating the world and was also associated with the fertilizing properties of rain. As an ancestral figure of the Incas themselves, he was believed of having emerged from the Titicaca Lake after a great flood had destroyed the first settlements in the region. He was also worshiped as a cultural hero who had traveled the Andes bringing knowledge and organizing human society. Taguacipa accompanied him and appears to have been the ‘shadow’ of the god who changed his good creations into evil creations.
As is the case in many other creative divinities in world mythology, Wiracocha was considered a distant figure by which all living things were made. He was offered sacrifices to win favors. Sometimes children were sacrificed (although Inca religious beliefs did not include generalized sacrifices, which were present among the Aztecs and other Central America rituals). According to Inca mythology, when the journeys and adventures of Viracocha in the Andes ended, he sailed west navigating over his robe through the Pacific. As is the case of other mythic cultural heroes, Wiracocha journeys were associated with specific shapes of the landscape. Furthermore, the popular belief that the powerful spiritual forces (huacas) could take the form of any object (the top of a mountain, a river or a specific rock) for good or evil was historically spread in the Andes. Inca literature has many hymns in Quechua dedicated to praise Wiracocha..