Huallallo Carhuincho

Fire-and-drought huaca of the Huarochiri myth-cycle, lord of the Yunca peoples before the rise of the storm-god Pariacaca, who quenched and expelled him. Named in the prose of Pariacaca as the rival huaca Huallallo. The water-versus-fire contest of Pariacaca and Huallallo Carhuincho is the structural core of the Huarochiri Manuscript.

Domains

• fire
• drought and volcanic fire

Powers

• blaze up in fiery flames that reach the sky
• demand and devour human children of his subject Yunca
• summon a giant two-headed serpent (amaru)

Relations

• enemy: Pariacaca

Sources

• Huarochiri Manuscript (Quechua, c. 1598-1608), chs. 8-9, ed./trans. Frank Salomon and George Urioste, The Huarochiri Manuscript (1991)