Ancash

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The angel Saint Gabriel warned the Indians of Cuenca and Pilchaca that a deluge was coming. The people climbed to the top of hills and the roofs of houses and granaries. Soon the sky darkened. Four suns came out, at night they came out and burned fiercely. The clay cracked; the stones of the houses burned. Fire rained on the ground. Not one person survived in Cuenca or Pilchaca. In the skies above, Saint Gabriel cried.

Marcos Yauri Montero, De Leyendas Ancashinas (Lima: P.L. villanueva Edita, 1979), 11-12; quoted in César Toro Montalvo, Mitos y Leyendas del Peru (Lima: Editores Importadores S.A., 1991), 406.