The pre-Inca Aymara creator and thunder-lightning god of the Titicaca basin; a wandering civilizer (also called Tarapaca) whom the Quechua Viracocha later subsumed.
Domains
thunder lightning
volcanoes creation
water rivers
Powers
Teach farming, weaving, language and moral law
Hurl lightning and command volcanoes and waters
Wander among men teaching law, craft and right worship
Epithets
Tunupa
Tarapacá
Sources
Bertonio, Vocabulario de la lengua aymara (1612)
Andean ethnohistory; the Quechua Viracocha largely absorbed the Aymara Tunupa