Gashowu Yokuts lore relates how this animal lost its eyes in the brush after its mother and its human “pets” teamed up to kill it. Mono lore relates how Ground Squirrel’s beheading of this animal let loose a bloody deluge that drowned the world. This animal embodies the fundamental virtues of kindness, wisdom, justice, and discipline in Mapuche culture. This animal is incited to gouge out the eyes of an enraged bull after being lashed to it during the violent (*) Festival of Blood. The staffs of the Staff-God depicted in Tiwanaku’s Gate of the Sun are tipped with the head of this animal, a motif that is shared by 16 figures on the gate’s lintel. While the puma and serpent represented the uk’u and kay (“kye”) levels, this animal acted as a divine messenger to the hanan pacha, or the Andean “Upper World.” For 10 points, name this animal whose namesake “temple” in Machu Picchu uses a pair of rocks to represent its large wingspan. ■END■
ANSWER: condors [accept Andean condorsorCalifornian condors; accept apu kuntur or manke; accept Temple of the Condor; prompt on birds or vultures]
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