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Source of warmth and light and a protector of the people. Inti was considered the most important god. The Inca Emperors were believed to be the lineal descendants of the sun god. Ka-ata-killa was a pre-inca moon goddess that was worshiped near Lake Titicaca. Kolash (Human from the nest) was the god of birds and their trills. Kolash was born as ...
A theme in Inca mythology is the duality of the Cosmos. The realms were separated into the upper and lower realms, the hanan pacha and the ukhu pacha and urin pacha.Hanan pacha, the upper world, consisted of the deities of the sun, moon, stars, rainbow, and lightning while ukhu pacha and urin pacha were the realms of Pachamama, the earth mother, and the ancestors and heroes of the Inca or ...
Category: Inca gods. 7 languages. Čeština; ... See also: Inca goddesses. Pages in category "Inca gods" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Inca goddesses (6 P) Inca gods (13 P) This page was last edited on 31 December 2013, at 18:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Inca deities (2 C) Q. Quechua legendary creatures (5 P) Pages in category "Inca mythology" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
In the Quechua, Aymara, and Inca mythologies, Supay was both the God of death and ruler of the Ukhu Pacha, the Incan underworld, as well as a race of demons. Supay is associated with miners' rituals. With the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Christian priests used the name "Supay" to refer to the Christian Devil.
The Inca religion uses the term 'apu' to refer to a mountain with a living spirit; the body and energy of the mountain together form the spirit's wasi ("home" or "temple"). [2] A number of different terms are used for different types of apu: Ayllu Apu – protector of a village (such as Apu Manuel Pinta) [2]
The Sun of May as seen on the national flags of Argentina and Uruguay. Inti is the ancient Inca sun god.He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun. [1]