 The grace and power of the cougar have been widely admired in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas . The Inca city of <unk> is reported to have been designed in the shape of a cougar , and the animal also gave its name to both Inca regions and people . The <unk> people represented the puma often in their ceramics . The sky and thunder god of the Inca , <unk> , has been associated with the animal . 
