Viracocha accounts: Betanzos (1551), Cieza de León (1553), Sarmiento de Gamboa (1572)

Sarmiento recorded Viracocha as 'white and dressed in a white robe like an alb', with a staff and a book.

Colonial Spanish chronicles

Viracocha creates, teaches, then walks off across the sea. Myth, memory of a real teacher, or a story bent by Spain?