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    Inca-tastic Tales
    Inca-tastic Tales
    Inca-tastic Tales
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    Inca-tastic Tales

    By Helen Pugh

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    "I would recommend it to young readers and anyone else that wants to read tales about Incas. Children also get to find out what their Inca name is and this absolutely fascinated my children!"

    Join the goddess Pachamama and the rainbow Cuychi on an epic journey through Inca-tastic history! You'll get to meet gods, goddesses, a magician, queens, kings, princes, princesses, kidnappers, warriors, conquerors, treasure hunters, explorers, heroes and 2 volcanoes who are in love.

    Buckle your seat belt and come along on this cultural and educational adventure in South America!

    12 well-researched Inca-tastic stories to share with your kids! 8 beautiful legends and 4 narratives based on historical accounts. There are 9 well-loved stories adapted for children from narratives in 'Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire' and 3 brand-new tales.

    Includes the brand new Bonus Section: Colouring Pages!

    For ages 8 to 80.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHelen Pugh
    Release dateFeb 23, 2021
    ISBN9781005100681
    Inca-tastic Tales
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    Helen Pugh

    Helen Pugh is the author of Unsung Women in Somerset, a collection of short stories focussing on real-life and legendary women who lived, loved, worked and struggled in Somerset.Her other works include Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire, an accessible non-fiction historical account of incredible Inca women who lived hundreds of years ago. For children, she has written Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales, short story anthologies for children based on extensive research into the rainforest and Inca history, respectively, as well as Cuentos incatásticos for Spanish speakers.Her interest in South America and the Incas began in 2006, when she first went to Ecuador. Then, from 2011 she lived there for 7 continuous years, 6 in the Amazon Region and 1 in Quito. Her children are half Ecuadorian, which was another driving force for exploring South American heritage. She experienced domestic violence and very long and traumatic legal battles in Ecuador so can relate to some of the Inca women in the book on that front.Helen studied Spanish and Italian at university and has a lifelong passion for history, especially that of historical women who made history, but have been sidelined.

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      Inca-tastic Tales - Helen Pugh

      Inca-tastic Tales

      by Helen Pugh

      Copyright 2021 Helen Pugh

      Cover image, other images of Pachamama, author picture and illustrator picture copyright 2021 Alex Thompson

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Praise for Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire:

      A really good read for anyone interested in how women can survive.

      A fresh readable style.

      It is hard to imagine the amount of research required to track down every woman mentioned in the Spanish chronicles. A book like this can easily become hard to read, but here Helen shines by adding funny comments as well as interesting pieces of information about Inca history and culture.

      The font is a nice Dyslexia friendly size.

      "Your book should be adapted for television!"

      Table of Contents

      Welcome

      Chapter 1: Sun and Moon

      Chapter 2: Corn Goddess

      Chapter 3: Clay People

      Chapter 4: Magical Water

      Chapter 5: Tears of Blood

      Chapter 6: Water and a Wedding

      Chapter 7: A Beautiful Voice

      Chapter 8: The Lake of Blood

      Chapter 9: The Ransom

      Chapter 10: Treasure Hunters

      Chapter 11: The Tyrant Queen

      Chapter 12: Volcanic Love

      An Inca-tastic Timeline

      Just For Fun

      Tricky Words

      List of Goddesses and Gods

      BONUS SECTION: Colouring Pages

      Bibliography

      About the author

      To Dianne, Mindal, Yutsu and Jake: for the time you asked me, Mummy, snuggle on the sofa with us and tell us stories about Pachamama!

      And thank you to Mindal for coming up with the word ‘Inca-tastic’!

      Welcome

      Oh, hey there!

      My name’s Cuychi. Just say CWEE chee.

      As you can see, I’m a rainbow. Rainbows were super important to the Incas. They thought that we protected people and were a symbol of the Inca’s power. A rainbow appeared to the very first Inca nobles when they arrived in Cusco.

      Anyway, I’m here to tell you some Inca-tastic tales about Inca people as well as Inca gods and goddesses. Does that sound cool?

      Okay then, let’s get started!

      First of all, if you get stuck on any tricky words, just jump to the section that is helpfully named ‘Tricky Words’!

      Secondly, here’s a map of where the Inca Empire used to be when it was at its BIGGEST (just before the Spanish came along and destroyed it). This was what it looked like about 500 years ago, which is a long time - even your oldest, smelliest socks aren’t that old!

      And it was Inca-tastically big! It was 3,400 miles long, which is roughly the distance from London to Dubai.

      Population: more or less 10 million at its peak.

      Capital City: Cusco (or Cuzco), in the country we now call Peru.

      Language: Quechua, but many other languages were spoken in the empire.

      Once upon a time in South America…

      Chapter 1: Sun and Moon

      First of all, let’s introduce Pachamama.

      Patch yer mama? Er, not quite. pa cha MA ma.

      ‘Pacha’ means time or earth and ‘mama’ means mother in Quechua (the Inca’s language). She was the Inca’s version of Mother Nature.

      In one legend, she was linked to Pachakamaq (pa cha CA mack), who was a super VIP god along the northern Peruvian coast. The story goes that…

      There were two gods who were also brothers- Pachakamaq (the creator god) and Wakon (the god of evil and fire). One brother liked to create and build nice things, while the other liked to destroy and burn things down. So, they weren’t exactly best buddies!

      Both fell in love with Pachamama. Yep, two brothers were pining after the same woman!

      Pachamama decided that she wanted to be with Pachakamaq, because he was kinder and didn’t go around destroying things. Fair enough really. They became a couple and had boy-girl twins together.

      This didn’t make Wakon massively happy. In fact, he got so angry that he used his powers to do some really bad stuff. He caused floods, followed by long periods of time without any rain at all, which WASN’T VERY NICE of him. This evil meant that he was thrown out of heaven.

      But Pachakamaq didn’t want his brother down on Earth either, since Wakon was so dangerous. He challenged Wakon to a fight and the results were:

      Pachakamaq and Pachamama: 1; Wakon: 0.

      With that, Pachakamaq was able to exile Wakon, making him leave the coastal area they were all in. He now had to live in far-away caves, where he crouched down in the darkness with angry thoughts running through his mind. He thought and he thought about Pachamama and Pachakamaq and he hated them.

      But, the whole Earth became a nice place to live again because Wakon couldn’t cause any trouble from the caves he was prowling around in. Pachamama and her husband ruled over the Earth happily like a queen and king. But they didn’t get to stay happy for long.

      One terrible day, Pachakamaq was walking along a cliff near Lima when he suddenly lost his grip and fell into the sea. Down and down he went into the water until he drowned and died.

      Thankfully, Pachakamaq’s soul lived on. Half of his soul turned into an island in that sea, while the other half of his soul went into the sky.

      When they learnt that Pachakamaq was no longer walking the Earth, Pachamama and the twins were very saddened. The earth mourned too: it was plunged into total darkness.

      Still, someone had to rule the dark world. Pachamama did it alone and with great skill until one day she saw a light in the distance that caught her attention. How could it be that a light was shining in the middle of the pitch-black world?

      With her children scurrying behind her, Pachamama decided to investigate. She followed the light on and on and on until they reached a cave that glowed with light from

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