Illapa
Inca · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Weather god of thunder, lightning and rain; one of the three great Inca state cults beside Inti and Viracocha.
Domains
- thunder and lightning
- rain and storm
Powers
- Cast rain from the celestial river and hurl lightning
Epithets
- Chuqui Illa 'Lance/Flash of Lightning' — the thunder-and-lightning god's title; the weather deity third of the three great Inca state cultsCobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, Book 13, ch. 7 (Chuquiilla) (primary chronicle); Molina, Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575) (primary chronicle)
Sources
- existence: Cobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo; Polo de Ondegardo (primary)