In Peru there is a strange god that is found on Huari vessels, and other pottery forms and as monumental statues.(circa 600-1000 AD) Because of its squared stylized art forms, it is difficult to decipher its purpose.
In Garcilaso de la Vega, there is an Inca poem about the Lady of the Moon who was not really a goddess. She was a person of royal blood who had been transported into the Heavens and given a bottle filled with water that she was to pour upon the earth whenever it was needed. She was in charge of the gentle rains, the snow and the hail, explained as the gentle feminine side of the skies. She had a brother who, when angry, used thunder and lightning. As a result of one tantrum he broke the jar of water and there was a flood. The jar of water in the hands of a beautiful [white] lady is also found in China. Guai Yin there carries a golden bottle but she alone created a flood at one point in her story.
The Chinese tale in which Guai Yin appears is one about the North Star and how it traveled across the Eastern Sea of Death with the help of a magic gourd/boat [which contained a magnet]. It was the first time a magnet was used in conjunction with the North Star as a navigational aid to cross the Pacific Ocean. The date of this story is approximately 635 AD. Since there is a map of the North and South American continents dated 747 AD, there might be some truth to this event.
In spite of the fact that I knew the Chinese story very well, the Peruvian version was new to me. As it was, I was searching for a Weeping God, not a goddess. I studied several variations of this image. One image showed lightning streaks for tears falling from the eyes.
This was an indication that the image I was looking for was the brother who was so destructive. Was it remorse for having broken the bottle and having caused the flood? A few lines further I discovered that the tears of many of these Weeping Gods were inlayed with gold. Not only was it strange for a male god to be tearful, but it was the wrong ore for tears.
According to Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, his research discovered that silver was the "Tears" of the Moon while gold was the "Sweat" of the Sun. The sweat of the Sun was portrayed simply as tiny platelets sewn closely together on a cloth tunic. The tunic would then glisten in the sunshine just as a body covered with perspiration. But the silver tears of a god (or a goddess) was a different item altogether. And why were they portrayed as gold instead of silver?
There was not enough information in Peruvian texts that were available to me. There certainly was no information in the Chinese texts about this Peruvian God. The Weeping God was an enigma of the Andes.
During my research I happened upon a picture of a bowl with the image
of this weeping god inside of the rim (shown above).
A bowl was not a jar or a vase. It jogged my memory. The monolithic head
of the Moon Goddess of Mexico is also a weeping entity. However, her "tears"
are portrayed as glyphs (tears) for gold. It was in Mexico that the Moon
goddess was dismembered. Her son named Huitzilopochtli (not her brother),
emerged at birth from a mountain of serpents as a fully armed warrior.
He attempted to protect her from his four hundred brothers and sisters
the stars who wanted to destroy her. He failed.
During this sky/land battle, the mountains Popocatepetl and Ixtaccíhuatl
were split asunder and the fracture ran through the land from the Puerto
Rican Trench to the Baja peninsula. The split (a sheer thrust) is included
graphically in the original color version of the Ancient map shown in these
pages. At this point, the southern rim rose up into the sky. It created
a plateau which contained Lake Texcoco encircled by a ring of volcanoes,
much like a bowl. The Mexican "god" who is said to have accomplished
all of this was called Huemac, He of the Strong Hands, one of many names
used for Quetzalcoatl. The meteorite fallout is of one of four portrayed
in the Codex Ríos. He of the Strong Hands is portrayed on Stela
2 found at Izapa in Southern Chiapas
and
also at Chávin de Huántar, as small glyphs on the back of the giant caiman. Note the "finger" wings and the Bird on top of the head of the same
Peruvian images.
These strong similarities may indicate independent invention. Not only does Peru have placer mining from the mountain streams, there was a great upheaval when the Andes rose into the skies like a great ship. (Velikovsky)
Besides these two similarities, there is a lake with two islands:
one dedicated to the Moon and the other, to the Sun. However, the Weeping
God has another attribute that one can evaluate. In one image, he is found
holding two snakes.
Several other glyphs found in the Chávin de Huántar monument (including those mentioned above) infer a Mexican incursion into Peruvian Highlands. Before this problem of transmigration can be tackled, there are several small points that must be resolved.
Why was the Peruvian a male god while Mexico had a female goddess with golden tears? What was their connection, or was it only a coincidence that both had tears of gold? Could the symbol of tears associated with these two entities mean the exactly the same thing in each locale?