Inti
Aymara · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
The Sun, Tata Inti; solar deity of fertility, agriculture and the harvest, venerated across the Aymara highlands and shared with the wider Quechua-Andean world.
Domains
- sun agriculture
- sky
Powers
- Ripen crops and regulate the seasons
- Warm the earth and give light to the living
Epithets
- Inti The Sun, giver of warmth and the harvest, the great celestial power of the AndesAndean (Aymara) ethnography; colonial chronicles (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Andean ethnography; Inti as Aymara as well as Quechua sun-deity (secondary)