applied to the conquering strangers, so to this day the custom has
continued. A recent
traveler tells us, "Among _Los Indios del Campo_, or Indians of the
fields, the llama herdsmen of the _punas_,
and the fishermen
of the lakes, the common salutation to strangers
of a fair skin and blue eyes is '_Tai-tai Viracocha_.'"[1] Even if
this is used now, as M. Wiener seems to think,[2] merely as a servile
flattery, there is no doubt but that at the beginning
it was applied because the white strangers were identified with the
white and bearded hero and his followers of their culture myth, whose
return
had been foretold by their priests. [Footnote 1:
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