Divinity is distributed across specific wakas: particular mountains, springs, stones, and ancestral beings tied to named places and kin groups, rather than concentrated in a single transcendent god. These powers can travel, marry, fight, and be defeated, so religious authority maps directly onto landscape features and the social groups that claim descent from them.
The manuscript narrates political domination, including the arrival of the Inca and even the Spanish, as episodes in which one deity's power rises or declines relative to another's. Human victory and subjugation are explained as expressions of which waka currently commands the strongest cult and tribute, making history a ledger of shifting divine potency.
Who you are is defined by which waka you are required to worship and feed, so community membership is a matter of inherited cultic duty rather than belief or territory alone. Shifts in required worship (imposed by conquerors) therefore function as reassignments of ethnic and ancestral belonging.