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, ikaro (Span.): (n) Derived most likely from the jungle Quichua verb ikaray, the Spanish word icaro designates the magical lyrics, incantations, either whistled or spoken, learned by the shaman through the diet of plant teachers. POPPOP · Portals of Power – Shamanism in South America, Langdon Magical or medicine song that constitute the quintessence of shamanic power and are acquired from spirit helpers. Icaros are given to the shaman by the spirits of the plants the shaman is ingesting and learning to heal with. (See, yachay.) The icaro has material and immaterial qualities representing a transference of the spirits of the entheogenic plants with all of the animal and human form manifestations into the shaman’s own body. Once you know the icaro of a plant, you no longer need to consume that plant. Icaros must be sung perfectly for them to work. AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna Air or force charged with positive energy. EMMEMM · www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/Having strong icaros is essential for surviving as a medicine man. MSINMSIN · conference paper The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú, Luna Amazonian medicine/healing song. Common to both tarjos and icaros, there is an opening chorus that is used to set the healing ground. Once sacred space is created, the curandero must then allow the medicine song to sing itself. It could be said that when this occurs, the curandero no longer sings the song, the song begins to sing the curandero, ultimately delivering the medicine that Spirit deems appropriate for the given occasion. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee (See, Appendix E for much more on icaros.)

(n) Stipa ichu. Peruvian feather grass which grows extensively in the Andean altiplano. It is used as fodder for livestock, roofing, rope making. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www)The ichu grass had some obscure mythological meaning. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.

, ychuri, ychuiri, ychurichuc: (n) (1) Grassman. A special class of shaman from Collao (home of the ancestors of the Aymara) who heard confessions of sin, imposed penances, and purified those who sought their services. Sin had a community connotation throughout ancient Peru, for unconfessed sins were believed to exert a blighting effect on the social group. Penance and purification took place on riverbanks. The penitent confessed in secret into a bunch of ichu grass (see, above). Then he transferred the sin to the grass by spitting on it. The grass (and the sin) were thrown into the water, to be carried far from the reach of humanity. A ceremonial bath in the water completed purification. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. The role of these professionals in the community was considered very highly They were revered as saintly personalities essential to the well-being of the individual and the group. The reason for this prestige was that they were the only ones who could pardon sin. Illness was interpreted as a punishment of the gods for some wrong-doing, good health was directly associated to a state of grace obtained only through confession to an ichuri. The sinner would accompany the ichuri to an isolated place and prostrate, recite one by one all of his crimes, vices and wrong doings (an evil thought was not considered a sin; only the consummated actions against the laws of the community). The ichuri, who probably knew his brethren better than anyone else, saw to it that no offense remained occult in this act of confession. If he was not satisfied, he would punish, even torture, the sinner until everything was said. Then he would do some magic passes over the penitent and, taking a handful of ichu, he would throw it into the current of a river. With the grass went all the sins and their ill effects and also went the memory of the event, signifying the complete privacy of the confession. When the confessor judged that the person was too great a sinner, he increased the penitence as follows: he brought a person who had a congenital defect who went to the penitent to the river to make the usual washing; having washed, the person with the congenital defect whipped the penitent with poison ivy. For this purpose there was in Cusco a small host of those congenitally crippled who were in charge of these chores. The ichuris were sworn to absolute secrecy before they were given credentials to work in the community. They were neither judges nor spies. Their holy action was directed only to the liberation of the human soul from sin. Once this was done in complete privacy, the sin was forgotten by the gods and its occult dangers were averted. This was not intended to be curative; it was mainly a prophylactic ceremony. Ichuris lived frequently isolated in the deserted plains of the Andes [the puna] where the ichu grows. They led an ascetic life of sacrifice and meditation, suffering cold and fasting for long periods. Most of them came from the priestly caste or from guacacues. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. (2) The revealing of misdeeds, usually to the priestly attendants (ychurichuc) of huacas. If the confessor felt that the person was telling less than the whole truth, he or she might resort to divination to settle the issue and would use a stone to pummel the bent back of anyone considered to be lying. IAWS NMHI

(n) The icaro with which a vegetalista communicates with the spirits of the plants. EMMEMM · www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/

(n) Idolatries; the investigations by the Spanish priests into the idolatrous practices in the countryside of the Inca empire. The richest sources of information were the curacas. The Idolatrías and the Huarochirí Manuscript are rich sources of information of the historical practices of Inca spirituality. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux

(n) A god often depicted as an anthropomorphic iguana. Iguana generally sports a long tunic, a bulging cloth tied around the waist or the neck, and a headdress made with long feathers and a bird effigy, usually a condor. He is frequently found in Moche iconography with Aia-Paec. WUTEWUTE · www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbousex.html

(v) To blow smoke for healing. POPPOP · Portals of Power – Shamanism in South America, Langdon (See, icaro.)

, ila cayu (AYM): (n) Moment of time. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara

(n) (1) Regenerative, creative principle,creation. The moment when it acquires flow, it becomes kawsay. The substance that creates reality; manifests as fire and water. RS JLH ROR A specific designation of khuya used by shaman-priests, including (but not limited to) conopas; can also mean “most high” or sacred, or as an abbreviation for illariy (see, below). ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation) (2) Lightning; ray; reflected or artificial light. (3) Precious stone; jewel; hidden treasure. (4) Enlightenment. (5) A small square stone given by a mentor to the student. RS JLH ROR Rectangular four- or five-inch alabaster stone carved in the form of a chacra, with crops, animals, houses and people of the family. It is in essence a mesa unto itself. IGMP (6) In Aymara ceremony, it is a livestock figurine. Illas are the equivalent of the Quechua enqaychu. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. See, tukapu).

(n) Literally, light head. One who radiates light. IGMPIGMP · Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru, Delgado

(n) The name of one of one of the sacred mountains of the Inca. Located in Bolivia. Its mystical significance is to channel illa into tangible benefit, abundance. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures

(n) The name of one of the refuge mountains of the Kollahuayas, 21,000 feet.

(v) To radiate. RSRS · runasimi.de

Iyapa, Ilyap’a, Katoylla: (n) God of thunder. RS ROR God of thunderstorms. EFDEFD · encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com seen as a man carrying a club and rocks in his hands, or as a man in shining clothes that flashed as lightning when he moved. GMGM · www.gaiameditations.com MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux He was one of the more popular Incan deities. His name meant thunder and lightning, and he drew rain water from the Milky Way, which he kept in a jug. When there was not enough rain, people would tie up black dogs and let them starve. They would keep them there until Illapa took pity on them, and sent rain. (See, titicaca water frog.) WPOWPO · www.pantheon.org Ancient curanderos believed that lightning crosses through the three worlds, as they observed lightning coming from the sky (hanaqpacha), touching the earth (kaypacha), and disappearing into the ground (ukhupacha). In pre-Columbian cosmology, Illapa was a god depicted as a man holding a club and sling. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee

(n) A generic term referring to all forms of lightning. (See, qhaqya, raio, relámpago.)

(v) To be touched by lightning or die from a lightning strike. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara (See, illa.)

(n) Dawn, the first ray of dawning. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

, Qoyllur Ch’aska: (n) The dawn star or Morning Star: Venus. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation) See, ch’aska. (sometimes also Q’oyllor Ch’aska or simply Ch’aska)

(n) An object that shines or radiates light. AEAAAEAA · Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching, Bauer and Dearborn

(adj) Shining; brilliant. (v) (1) To bring light into the world, which in turn allows awakening of the ceke system. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee To dawn; to shine; to light; to brighten. Bring forth creation. RSRS · runasimi.de (2) To harness the energy of the three suns (of each of the three worlds) with our luminous bodies. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee To draw in the first ray of dawning, usually of a specific energy-system. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation) (v.imp.) To call into alignment or awakening the above-mentioned forces. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation) Rise and embrace the sun! A phrase used to empower another. (n) The divine principle of dawn or of illumination and awakening, often in reference to the activation of specific (or global) cekes, temples, or shrines; also used in reference to the “coming into alignment” of inner and outer principles of light or of the archetypal Three Suns within the human luminous body. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

(n) An illumined person. RSRS · runasimi.de

The Creator God. Illa meaning light; ticci means base, foundation, or origin, hence founder. An early scholar translated it as Eternal Light. HOIHOI · History of the Incas, Sarmiento de Gamboa (See, Wiracocha.)

(n) Boa constrictor. RSRS · runasimi.de

See, illa.

See, Quilliscacha.

(n) Westerners have lost five of their ten senses. We still have the five physical senses of touch, taste, sight, hearing and feeling, but we have lost the five imaginal senses, the senses of our imagination and mind. These are (1) the sense of self-healing, (2) the sense of self-destruction, (3) the sense of penetration, (4) the sense of perception, and (5) the sense of revelation. These are as taught by the Chumash Indians of California and they call it Chumash X-ray. TEQTEQ · The Eagle's Quest: A Physicist's Search for Truth in the Heart of the Shamanic World, Wolf (See, Appendix I for a fuller explanation of this and other models of shamanic perception.)

See, Appendix I, bottom section (Chumash Model of Perception).

(n) Literally, idealized image of the world.

The eldest of the two sons of the god Ticci Wiracocha. Without delving too deeply into the complex Quechua linguistics, Imay Maman seems to represent he who inquires and seeks the truth. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. See, Tukapu (the other son)..

(n) Called Taita Imbabura (Father Imbabura) by the native Ecuadorians, the volcano is considered by them to be the father of all mysteries. Before him is his past and his future, destiny that is woven in a timeless pattern of earth and seed and harvest. TAVTAV · The Awakening Valley, Collier and Buitrón

(n) To release the total perceiving capacity of human beings would not in any way interfere with their functional behavior. In fact, functional behavior would become an extraordinary issue, for it would acquire a new value. Function in these circumstances becomes a most demanding necessity. Free from idealities and pseudo-goals, man has only function as his guiding force. Shamans call this impeccability. For them, to be impeccable mans to do one’s utmost best, and a bit more. They derive function from seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe. If energy flows in a certain way, to follow the flow of energy is, for them, being functional. Function is, therefore, the common denominator by means of which shamans face the energetic facts of their cognitive world. TDJTDJ · The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Castaneda The virtues of a warrior. Impeccability is the systematic, correct and efficient use of energy. Impeccability is related to being free of self-importance, being internally streamlined, unambiguous, in control of self. On one hand the impeccable warrior is traveling light, without carrying baggage of assumptions, preconceptions, beliefs, internal considering and so forth. We could say Impeccability has to do with being an empty vessel that can receive higher influences. On the other hand, the warrior practicing impeccability has a definite path and is in no way a random or arbitrary entity. Impeccability is a combination of commitment to a path and flexibility and acuity of observation and freedom of choice. GCCGCC · glossary.cassiopaea.com/glossary.php?id=397 (See, luminous warrior.)

See, Qhapaq Simi.

(n) Like the image left by a rubber stamp, our luminous bodies carry the energetic patterns of traumatic experiences, waiting like land mines, to be triggered by circumstance and then release their stored energy into the physical body, causing illness and/or emotional upset. PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere. (See, luminous body.)

(n) (1) A ruling class of people inhabiting the Cusco valley in the late 1100’s to 1532 a. d., possibly comes from ancient word enqa which means black hole [see, enqa for more of this energy-related definition], or one who can absorb all the living energies; ruler; son of the sun; lover. RS QNO Originally from the Lake Titicaca region; early accounts take note that they were exceedingly light-skinned when compared to their immediate neighbors and had very Asian-looking features; they referred to themselves as intip churikuna, “the children of the Sun.” ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation) (2) Loosely and inaccurately applied to ancient Peruvians as a whole. CSCRCSCR · Cut Stones and Crossroads, Wright (See, runa, Appendices D and H, for more about their empire, .) (3) The Inca have attained mythic status in the Amazon. Among the vegetalistas, the Inca is considered to be the father and creator of humanity. They have not disappeared but continue to live, enchanted, in cities under the earth and spirit cities in the sky. AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna (4) There is evidence that the Inca royalty may have spoken a secret courtly language called Inca, distinct from Quechua. (See, Qhapac Simi.) CSCRCSCR · Cut Stones and Crossroads, Wright (5) Inca is the original model of all things; probably this is the fundamental meaning: archetype. CSCRCSCR · Cut Stones and Crossroads, WrightCompare, enqa.

See, Three Inca Laws, and Ama llulla, ama qilla, ama suwa.

(n) Shaman of the fifth level who is able to cure with a single touch. WMG RS Mallku comes from the root word meaning tree, thus Inka mallku also means one connected to the spiritual geneaology of the Incas. The female counterpart is Ñust’a. QNOQNO · www.quechuanetwork.orgBeing struck by lightning is considered a sacred rite of passage for the curandero. This phenomenon is associated with several karpays for the paq’o’s of the Andes. an important karpay for the Inca Mallku initiate is to be hit by lightning and to survive, proving the initiate can sustain this energetic connection; hence, the shaman has been chosen to be initiated by the three worlds. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee

(n) There is no solid ethnohistorical evidence for the ritual orientation to the four cardinal directions in Peru. That the four quarters were important in pre-conquest Peru is suggested by the name for the Inca empire: Tawantinsuyu. They also built four roads running from their capital, Cusco, to each of the four divisions of the empire. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.  (See, Appendix D.) Although the South American Inca did not have a medicine wheel in the sense of the North American natives, at least one prolific teacher of Inca shamanism in the United States has synthesized one. Thus, this non-traditional concept has entered the subject of Inca shamanism as it is taught outside of the Andes. PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere.

, coca del Inca, cucacuca: (n) According to the Indians, the Incas used the leaf in place of real coca. In the form of a powder, it was taken instead of tobacco “to clear the head.” REPCREPC · Ruiz as an Ethnopharmacologist in Peru and Chile, Schultes [taxonomy accuracy questionable]

(n) The legendary sixth Inca ruler, probably ruling in the 13th Century. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux

(n) Quechua (language of the Inca). RSRS · runasimi.de (See, runasimi)

(n) the ninth Inca ruler having the shortest reign of any of the pre-Spanish kings, traditionally less than a year in 1438.  Chose by his father, Wiracocha Inca, to be his successor, he fled with his father at the approach of a rival army, leaving his brother, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, to defend Cusco.  MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux

(n) Inca’s house. RSRS · runasimi.de

See, enqaychu.

Another name for Yahuar Huacac.

(v) To believe (religious). QPQP · Quechua Phrasebook, Coronel-Molina

See, Inca.

(n) Inca rey (sp) (Inca king). Masculine principle, rigid. The right side of the body. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures (See, collari.)

(n) A mythical being captured via deceit by his enemies and quartered in the central square of Cusco. The pieces were then buried, hidden, far apart. Legend has it that these pieces are slowly reuniting and that, when the head again sits atop the body, the Indians will overthrow the current government and take back their country under Inkarri’s leadership. THIMTHIM · The Three Halves of Ino Moxo

Inkari was the name of the first man in the Incan creation myth. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux The post-conquest mythical dying and reviving Inca (see, below), a combination of Quechua and Spanish, both words Inka and rey meaning king in their respective languages.  The belief of the return of Inkarrí is in keeping with the concept of pachacuti. The myths are apparently based in the beheadings of two of the Inca kings by the Spanish, Atahualpa and Tupac Amaru. The belief is that, once buried in the ground, the head becomes the seed for a new body. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux The prophesied return of the Inca ways, social, political, and spiritual. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

(n) A ground cloth oriented to the east upon which the mesa sits. WOFWWOFW · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page. See, Aymara mesa.

(n) English. QPQP · Quechua Phrasebook, Coronel-Molina

(n) Church (sp). QPQP · Quechua Phrasebook, Coronel-Molina

(n) One that has a star, or good fortune, in everything. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara

(n) Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. WIKIQWIKIQ · en.wikiquote.org The most important ingredient in medicine work; intention is everything. AVOAVO · my notes from Alberto Villoldo, various writings and lectures One of the maxims of Chinese medicine is chi follows yi and blood follows chi. Yi is focused intent, which gives the practitioner the capacity to control subtle energies (chi) with the mind (yi), eventually affecting the body (blood). (See, munaña, luminous warrior.). PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere.

(adj) Self-serving. GOLGOL · The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, Glass-Coffin.

(n) Sun. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) (1) The shortened use of Inti Tayta, or Tayta Inti. IGMPIGMP · Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru, Delgado (2) Sun god. Inti gave rainbows to the people he created to remind them of his creation of the world and of them, and how the rainbow is different colors but is one road from earth to the sky. WMOWMO · www.mythome.org Inti rivalled Wiracocha in importance as a creator god because of his relationship with the Sapa Inca. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux (See, Punchau.) (AYM): (n) Sun or, according to the ancients, Villca [Wilka]. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara

(n) House of the Sun. HOIHOI · History of the Incas, Sarmiento de Gamboa

(n) East. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) Aureole around the sun. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) Literally, sun disappears. (1) Solar eclipse. (2) West. RSRS · runasimi.de(See, Inti Jiwaña, chincana.)

(n) See, Inti watana.

Death of the Sun. A solar eclipse. The mythic Black Jaguar slowly devours Inti, the light and life of this world.

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(n) The name means Thunder of the Sun. It was an idol of solid gold set on a rich litter of gold. Inca Yupanqui (see, below) made it and took it for this wayqi, or brother. It had a house in the district of Totocache and they did it great veneration. In the same house or temple was the body of the said Inca Yupanqui. To this idol they very commonly made sacrifices of children and of everything else, asking it that the strength of the Inca be preserved and his dominion not decrease. IRCIRC · Inca Religion and Customs, Cobo

(n) Sun of suns; supreme cosmic energy. CHAMCHAM · Chamalu, Luis Espinoza Behind Inti Tayta is the “Sun behind the sun,” or the Divine Presence who sends life force energy through Inti Tayta to Pachamama for all of nature. We receive this spiritual light energy in our spiritual body, from which it then flows to our physical body. IGMPIGMP · Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru, Delgado

(n) (1) A lliklla (manta) adorned with patterns representing Inti, perhaps the most common sort of manta. (2) Inti in the aspect of one specific geometric representational symbol. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

(n) Literally, sun comes out. Sunrise. RSRS · runasimi.de(See, lloqsi.)

(v) To understand (sp). QPQP · Quechua Phrasebook, Coronel-Molina

(n) Sun time. RSRS · runasimi.de(See, pacha.)

(n) Governor of things pertaining to the Sun.  HOIHOI · History of the Incas, Sarmiento de Gamboa

(n) West (where the sun disappears). RSRS · runasimi.de(See, chincana.)

(n) Child of the Sun.  HOIHOI · History of the Incas, Sarmiento de Gamboa Children of the sun; title used by the Incas, the ruler of whom (the Sapa) was considered to be the spiritual son of the sun, quite literally. ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

(n) East (where the sun comes out). RSRS · runasimi.de(See, lloqsi.)

Literally, sun gate. A notch in the mountain ridge near Machu Picchu.

(n) Sunrise. RSRS · runasimi.de

(v) To conceal the sun with the clouds. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara

(n) The Festival of the Sun at the winter solstice in June. An ill omen witnessed during the feast of Inti Raymi signaled the downfall of the empire when an eagle was seen mobbed by buzzards, and it fell from the sky. This occurred during the reign of Huayna Capac. MANMAN · Mythology of the American Nations, Jones and Molyneaux The Festival of the Sun at Sacsahuaman, Cusco, celebrated initially on June 21; however, following the Spanish conquest and extirpation of idolatries, has been celebrated annually on June 24 to coincide with the feast day of John the Baptist. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee (See, Qhapac Raymi.)

(n) Father sun. RSRS · runasimi.de Father sun, the original god of the Inca Empire representing a solar principle of consciousness (i.e., one pertaining to the unity of all that exists) and spiritual illumination and enlightenment; the unity principle embodied by Inti Tayta was the guiding force behind the uniting vision of the Inca priests and rulers (see, also, Kinsa Intikuna for an understanding of the Three Suns). ANON1ANON1 · anonymous donor 1 (see footnote on the original Text Sources page for explanation)

(n) Afternoon. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) Solar eclipse. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) Solar year. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) (1) A place to read the sun’s standing position; sun watch. RSRS · runasimi.de (2) Although it wasn’t the only one, it often means the hitching post of the sun at Machu Picchu, the most well known. Many of the Inti watanas were destroyed by the Spanish, who considered them pagan. PGOPGO · Patt Grantham O'Neill, personal definitions written when a good one could not be found elsewhere.The one at Machu Picchu is the top point of the pyramid that connects with the pyramid in the Cosmos. We can also say it connects the spiral of Pachamama with the spiral of the Cosmos. IGMPIGMP · Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru, Delgado

West (where the sun sets); sundown. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) A non-Inca noble woman. ICCICC · Inca Civilization in Cuzco, Zuidema

(n) Aunt, sister of father. ASDASD · Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara (See, tayca.)

See, hiporúru.

(n) Obtained from the roots of about a dozen different species, the best known of which are Cephaelis ipecacuanha and Cephaelis acuminata. The active principle is emetin, a substance which acts specifically against amoeba dysenterica. Ipecac, is derived from the dried rhizome and roots of the ipecacuanha. It is typically used to induce vomiting, which it accomplishes by irritating the lining of the stomach and by stimulating part of the brain called the medullary chemoreceptor trigger zone. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www)

(v) To empower.

(n) The ceremony of marking cattle, sometimes considered a wedding of young animals. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin

(n) (Laportea aestuans) A plant that can be used by sorcerers to do harm. [It is a nettle.] AYVAYV · Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Luna It has folk healing uses as well. Commonly used to relieve rheumatic pains, as a diuretic, for burns, constipation, dysentery, rickets, and wounds. DUKEDUKE · www.ars-grin.gov/duke/syllabus/module8.htm

(n)  Ocotea quixos is a species of evergreen tree in the Lauraceae family, native to Ecuador and Columbia. It is one of the South American trees with a cinnamon-like aroma, and is used as a spice called ishpingo or eshpingo. The bark is used to produce ‘Ecuadorian’ (or ‘American’) cinnamon which bears some resemblance to common cinnamon (which also comes from a tree in this family). The tree is known in Quechua as ishpingo, which specifically refers to the flowers, and more recently as Flor de Canela. The taste of Ecuadorian cinnamon is thought to come from the presence of methyl cinnamate and trans-cinnamaldehyde which are also found in the essential oils which come from the flower calices of the plant. While some reports show it has been used as a flavoring since Inca times, modern Ecuadorians still use this spice during general cooking and the production of food for rituals. Offerings to family ancestors for example, sometimes include food such as mazamorra morada (purple pudding) and beverages such as the alcoholic drink alajua, both of which require the use of ishpingo as a key ingredient. The oils have previously been used in the traditional medicine of some Amazonian tribes for their anti-inflammatory properties and some peer-reviewed data also support this theory. It has also been shown that this oil can reduce the chance of blood clot formation by preventing platelet aggregation in the blood. WIKIWIKI · en.wikipedia.org (no www)  Chicha used as an offering often has ishpingo powder added to it. Historic accounts say it is a very effective medicine against stomachaches, bloody diarrhea, and other diseases; however, the exact plant known historically as ishpingo has a few candidates with the precise identification unknown. EPPEPP · The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, Rätsch

For the mazamorra morada recipe (a traditional purple-corn pudding offered in ritual), click here.

(adj) Of two forms; biform. RSRS · runasimi.de

Now there are two in one, expressed by attendees after a wedding. RORROR · Rituals of Respect, Bolin

(phrase) The literal translation from Quechua is two wills, two hearts, which essentially signifies with double intention, in betrayal. DYEDYE · Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.

(n) An island off the coast of Ecuador from whence is is thought Wiracocha disappeared over the waters to the horizon. Inca occupation of this part of the empire was slight and problematic. Even so, important Inca offerings including golden and silver human figurines have been found on the otherwise unoccupied island suggesting that qhapac hucha sacrifices had been carried out there. RTZ1RTZ1 · www.colorado.edu/Conferences/pilgrimage/papers/Zuidema.html

See, Appendix B.

See, Appendix B.

(n) Airborne elementals that love to eat hucha. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures

(n) An important ceremony and festival held when the need arose, such as a pestilence, earthquake, draught or if the Inca decided to go to war himself. The men fasted and practiced celibacy, the women who had animals, and people from the provinces were sent from the city (Cusco). Guards were placed at the entrances to the city and no one was allowed to enter during the festival. Animals were sacrificed, and if the need was great, some children as well. Everyone who participated wore special costumes. After the ceremonies, the next day, there was much feasting and rejoicing. The Inca himself was the only one who could perform this ceremony, although as a very special favor, certain lords were allowed by the Inca to celebrate this Itu festival in his land. IRCIRC · Inca Religion and Customs, Cobo See, also, Ayma.

(n) (1) Mountain of your birth. Masculine spirit of one’s place of birth, also known as your guiding star. “Don Benito spent hours scrying in a cosmic plate to communicate with his guiding star; it makes you part of a larger cosmic system.” RSRS · runasimi.deQNO The equivalent feminine energy is called paqarina. JLHJLH · Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures Refers to the subterranean chamber of the apu. It is through this chamber that the curandero travels in order to meet the spirit of the apu called an estrella. PSPMPSPM · Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakúti Mesa, Magee

(v) to carry something heavy with both hands. RSRS · runasimi.de

(n) The Ashanínka word for a tuberous herb of magical and medicinal properties which are used according to their shape. THIMTHIM · The Three Halves of Ino Moxo

(n) Gospel (sp.). RSRS · runasimi.de

See, Illapa.