Sauadega jumalus - problemaatiline kuju Mochika usundis.

The Mochika culture is one of the oldest and most problematic among Peru's pre-Columbus cultures. Its center was situated in the northern coast in the valley of the river Moche, not far from the current city Trujillo. The first monuments of the Mochika culture were discovered in 1900 by Max Uhle, one of the founders of Peru's national science of archaeology. Back then, as the oldest civilization of Peru – Chavin – had not been discovered yet, Uhle came forth with the so-called immigrational theory according to which Peru's civilizations, including Mochika have received their initial influence from Meso-America. After Julio Tello's discoveries in 1919, the autochthonic theory of the forthcoming of Peru's civilizations started to predominate. The god with staves appears for the first time in Peru in the Chavin era (900 BC - 200 AD). Its classical figure is known by the so-called Raimond's stele. It is a god depicted holding a staff or stick in both hands. Other exterior features may vary by cultures.