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Not the first humans but the first Incas and not from the Titicaca lake but from the Pacaritambo cave, the only source that claims the Incas came from the Titicaca lake is Garcilazo de la Vega's 17th century chronicle, the early chronicles all claim the Pacaritambo cave as the original birthplace of the Incas, that's reason why all Cusco's historians rejected the Titicaca's version some years ago, its only supported by uninformed locals manly around the Titicaca lake. It seems that after many centuries the oral traditions blend together causing confusion among the local people, in pre-columbian times every central Andean culture had a place of origin or Pacarina, usually a cave or lake sometimes ruins from previous cultures from which its ancestors came to life, among them the Titicaca lake was especially important, as many local cultures claimed to descent from it, it seems the natives around the lake created a strong cult which believed the god Wiracocha created the first humans from that lake, but not specifically the Inca clans, that was added later likely in the colony as a form of syncretism or just degradation of the oral myths. Incas didn't believed they were the first humans but the most perfected ones. And Wiracocha is the one who feels more appropriate to be called "god of gods", though the most revered god among common people was Pachamama, Inti is seen as the most revered among the upper class (Incas) although this wasn't always the case, Inti and Wiracocha constantly rotated as the most revered god among the Incas, Wiracocha seems to have been the most favored god in the Tupac Yupanqui reign for example.