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Pachacama

a town and temple of ancient Peru, on the coast, about 20 miles S. of Lima. In this temple worship was paid to Pachacama, the ama, the Supreme Deity , or "founder of the world."

The ruins of the building, are of an older type of architecture than that of the Incas. The shrine and wooden image of the god were destroyed by Pizarro in 1523.

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