Word: atahualpa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a modern Christian society encounters a powerful enemy ruled by a son-of-heaven. . . . The Inca Empire's ten million people fell to Pizarro's 180 men not so much because of the Spaniards' firearms and horses, but because of Pizarro's capture of Atahualpa, the queen...
...short, fat, dark-haired Emperor, who earns his living teaching English, is a collateral descendant of the last reigning Inca, Atahualpa. He is the self-styled spiritual leader of 10,000,000 Indians and head of the unofficial Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito...