Like many other cultures, the Inca's history was based on a creation story. The Inca's believed the god Viracocha created the universe after he emerged from Lake Titicaca. 

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The Inca religion had two theories of religion and divinities

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The first theory is the fundamental religion and it has three levels.

First the Hanan Pacha. Hanan Pacha was the upper world and the home of the Inca gods (such as Viracocha, Pachacamac, Mamacocha and the Inca gods of the sun and moon). The Incas believed that those who led a good life would ultimately ascend to Hanan Pacha in the afterlife.

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The second level is the Kai Pacha or earth. Kai Pacha, literally “this world,” was the middle world of Inca mythology (variously written as Cay or Kay Pacha). This was the physical realm of living beings and the world of birth and decay, equivalent to our own inhabited world. This level contains divinities like the mountains, the rivers, the stones, the water, the animals and the plants.​

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The third level is the Uju Pacha. Uku Pacha can be seen as the Inca underworld, although inner world or below world may be more appropriate. Uku Pacha lies beneath the human realm of Kay Pacha, and is, as one may expect, a place where those unfit for Hanan Pacha will go upon their deaths. This level is believed to contain the death ancestors, goblins, mukis and Sacras or Inca demons.
 

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The second theory on the Inca religion has three types of divinities. First: The Pachayachachic, creator of heaven and earth, universal supreme God, the beginning and end. Second: The Inti, god creator of men and nature. Third: The Apu, spirits who live in the hills, in the environment around us, in the death mummies of Inca kings and in the Inca Pyramids. 

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