Tunupa
Aymara · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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 The wandering god of thunder, volcanoes, and weather, who crossed the altiplano shaping the landAndean ethnography; Bertonio, Vocabulario de la lengua aymara (secondary)
- Tarapacá the wandering civilizer (a by-name merged with Viracocha)Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui, Relación (c. 1613) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Bertonio, Vocabulario de la lengua aymara (1612) (primary)
- equation-with-Viracocha: Andean ethnohistory; the Quechua Viracocha largely absorbed the Aymara Tunupa (secondary)