What the word VIRACOCHA meant to the INCAS?

The word VIRACOCHA, a quechua term for LIGHT then and now, has misled many into thinking  the Incas took the Europeans as gods. The real truth is that the Incas did not take them as gods.
Since the color of their skin was white,  and, in the sense of the Inca's religious concept, the Europeans needed to prove to the Inca that they were truly the sons of the light as they identified themselves as "sons of the real God."
As we can see through the narratives written by the same Europeans, they couldn't prove it, resulting in the assassination of the Inca Atahualpa and the confiscation of an overwhelming amount of gold paid to them for the ransom of the Inca's soul.
To understand what were the beliefs that played an important role in the demise of the empire we begin with the word VIRACOCHA. What the word Viracocha meant to them?
It was understood as "SEA OF FAT" and referred to the associations of the CREATOR with the MILKY WAY.  The dual energy, that was and still is,  emanating from this interrelation was denominated "moisture," "animal fat," 'the sea," and "the color white."
The Andean world was and still is structured by a dual system, which is a system of complementary opposites. It resembles the Chinese Yang and Ying. For the Incas the two halves are called HANAN (Upper) and HURIN (Lower). Man,sun, fire, mountains, and so forth, belonged to the upper half; woman, moon, water, sea, and coast, to the lower half. And the most important concept is here - present and center are upper; past and periphery were lower. It is very important to understand how it worked in the spiritual realm in order to get the full concept of the religious beliefs they had and still have.
The Incas believed that history was a succession of ages divided one from another by a cataclysm epoch. They called it a "pachacutec" which meant an "overturning of the world." This upheaval reversed the polarity of the halves: what was upper became lower, and vice versa.
The Incas implied with this explanation of revolving ages that the new order of things was about to begin. The unnatural and destructive force of the Europeans from the Andean point of view, could not be accepted and would one day be reversed. For the past order is not irrevocable; it remains latent in the underworld, awaiting return: one pachacutec demands another.