Inkarri
Q'ero/Quechua · demigod · pachakuti conquest · Recorded classification
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
- paternal: Inti
- maternal: 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
- existence: Núñez del Prado, El mundo sobrenatural de los Quechuas (1970) (secondary); Müller, "Die Inkarrí-Mythen" (1970) (secondary); Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca (1986) (secondary)
- parentage-as-son-of-inti: Núñez del Prado (1970) (secondary)