Pachakamaq

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Pacha Kamaq ( Quechua : "Creator of the world"; also Pacha Ruraq or in Spanish spelling Pachacamac or Pacharurac) was a deity, which among others by the Ichma in the city of Pachacámac (Quechua: Pachakamaq) before the conquest by the Spaniards ( Conquista ) was venerated.

Pachakamaq was the creator of the first man and woman, but he did not give them any food, so the man died. The woman who accused him of neglect cursed the Creator God. Pachakamaq then gave her fertility. He later killed her son and cut the body to pieces that made the various fruit and vegetable plants. The woman's second son, Wichama , escaped, and Pachakamaq killed his mother. Wichama retaliated by driving Pachakamaq into the sea.

The Incas took over Pachakamaq when they conquered the Ichma territory with the city of Pachakamaq. In late Inca mythology , he was a son of Tayta Inti and Mama Killa and the husband of Mama Pacha . We only know with certainty from the Ichma that they worshiped the eponymous creator god in the city of Pachakamaq, although other peoples had owned the place before them ( Wari , the so-called Pachacámac empire, Chancay and Chimú ).

literature

  • Johann Georg Müller: History of the original American religions. Schweighauser, Basel 1855. 706 pages. §64: The Myth of Pachacamac, pp. 317–322.
  • Heinrich Cunow: History and culture of the Inca empire: A contribution to the cultural history of ancient America. Severus Verlag, Hamburg 2011. 236 pages. Pachacamac: p. 179. ISBN 9783863470661
  • María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco: Estructuras andinas del poder / Ideología religiosa y política. IEP Instituto de estudios peruanos. Lima 1988 (3rd edition).
  • Waldemar Espinoza Soriano: Los Incas / Econonomía sociedad y estado en la era del Tahuantinsuyo. Amaru editores, Lima 1987 (1st edition).