Indeed, little is known about the Chachapoyas, and this -together with their name (Warriors of the Clouds) and their relative advanced civilisation- has lead to legends and mythical stories. One of these suggests that the Chachapoyas were a tall, fairhaired, light-skinned race that researchers believe may have come from Europe”.
Since the Incas and the Spanish conquistadors were the principal sources of information on the Chachapoyas, unbiased first-hand knowledge of the Chachapoyas remains scarce. Writings by the major chroniclers of the time, such as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, were based on fragmentary second-hand accounts. The chronicler Pedro Cieza de León, for example, offers some picturesque notes about the Chachapoyas:
“They are the whitest and most handsome of all the people that I have seen in Indies, and their wives were so beautiful that because of their gentleness, many of them deserved to be the Incas’ wives and to also be taken to the Sun Temple.”
many of them deserved to be the Incas' wives and to also be taken to the Sun Temple....assuming of course that wasn't a one-way trip... ;')