Author: * Xolotl Huascar -
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Date: Jun 8, 2007 - 09:27
Chasca
Other Names: "The long-haired Star (Venus)."
Description: Goddess who cared for princesses, girls and flowers.
Illapa
Description: Storm and weather god, shown as a man with war club and sling.
Rules Over: Thunder and lightning.
Inti
Other Names: Apu Punchaur.
Description: Sun God. Represented by a great golden disk with a face, but in the Incan mind he was thought to have a human form. His annual festival was to celebrate the harvest of maize. Chanting lasted from sunrise to sunset with continual animal sacrifices.
Rules Over: Fertility, crops.
Mama Cocha
Other Names: "Mother Sea."
Description: Worshipped especially on the Peruvian coast.
Rules Over: Fishing.
Mama Quilla
Other Names: "Mother Moon."
Description: Moon Goddess. She was depicted as a silverdisk with a human face. Wife of Inti. She was not worshipped by many, and was connected with the calendar and festivals.
Rules Over: Protectress of women, the calendar, religious festivals.
Manco Capac
Description: Sun god. Youngest son of the Sun. Founder of Cuzco.
Rules Over: Magick.
Pachacamac
Other Names: "Lord of the Earth."
Description: Pictured as a tall white man who worked miracles, also said to create earthquakes. Sacrifices of animals and humans were performed every year to him.
Rules Over: The arts, occupations and oracles.
Supai
Description: God of the Underworld and death. One-hundred children were sacrificed every year to him. He was considered a greedy god, always wanting to increase the number of his followers.
Rules Over: Death.
Urcaguary
Description: God of underground treasures. Represented as a snake with a deers head and a tail decorated with gold chains.
Rules Over: Treasure.
Viracocha
Other Names: Huiracocha.
Description: Great God without beginning or end. Inca legend said he lived in heaven and maintained the world, however, they also believed he left many futions of the universe and humankind to the lesser gods. He was thought of in human form. Giver of the arts of civilization.
Rules Over: Sun, storm, lightning, oracles, languages, moral codes, rain, water, fertility.
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