Tunupa
Aymara · deity · mythic · deity
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