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Sepia-toned illustration on aged rice parchment depicting an Andean village plaza beneath towering Peruvian mountains. A richly dressed false priest raises a ceremonial staff toward the sky as anxious villagers watch. At the edge of the crowd stands Cuniraya Viracocha in disguise as a ragged traveler. Dark rain clouds drift away from the valley toward distant hills, revealing the priest’s fraud. “OldFolktales.com” is inscribed in the bottom right corner.

The Deception of the False RainMaker

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December 30, 2025
In the time when gods still walked the earth disguised as humble travelers, when the sacred and the ordinary mingled freely in the terraced valleys of the Andes, there lived a man named Huatyacuri in a prosperous village beneath the shadow of the great mountains. This man was neither a farmer nor a herder, neither a weaver nor a craftsman.

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