Inkarri

Post-conquest messianic figure. The Inkarri myth fuses Inca dynastic memory, Christian eschatology, and Andean millenarianism into the most distinctive religious tradition of the colonial-era Andes. Among the most politically charged demigod figures anywhere — drives the centuries-long pattern of Andean revolt and Pachakuti expectation.

Parentage

• Inti
• Unnamed Andean Woman

Domains

• kingship
• death and rebirth

Powers

• kingship incan conferral
• pachakuti eschatological promise
• regenerate his buried body upward from the severed head
• Regenerates his buried body

Sources

• Núñez del Prado, El mundo sobrenatural de los Quechuas (1970)
• Müller, "Die Inkarrí-Mythen" (1970)
• Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca (1986)
• Núñez del Prado (1970)