Inti
Q'ero/Quechua · deity · inca imperial · Recorded classification
Sun-deity of the Inca Empire. Patriline ancestor of the Sapa Inca through Manco Cápac. In post-contact Q'ero tradition continues as the divine paternity of Inkarri.
Children
Domains
- sun
- kingship
Powers
- celestial luminance
- kingship incan conferral
- send forth Manco Cápac and the first Inca to found Cuzco
- Sends forth the first Inca
Epithets
- Apu Inti 'Lord Sun' — the supreme solar title in the Inca state cult, divine ancestor of the Sapa IncaCobo, Bernabé. Historia del Nuevo Mundo (1653), Book 13, ch. 5–6 (primary chronicle); Molina, Cristóbal de. Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los Incas (c. 1575) (primary chronicle)
- Punchao 'the Daylight / Day-Sun' — the golden warrior-sun idol of the Coricancha embodying IntiCobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, Book 13, ch. 5 (primary chronicle)
- Apu Punchau Lord of Daylight / the Day-Sun; the boy-image of Inti at the CoricanchaBritannica, 'Inti' (Apu-punchau); Wikipedia, 'Inti' (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Mama KillaSister-wife in Garcilaso's account; the divine sibling-marriage of Sun and Moon.Garcilaso de la Vega, Bk. III (primary)
- father of: Manco CápacGarcilaso, Bk. I Ch. 15 (primary)
- father of: Mama OclloGarcilaso, Bk. I Ch. 15 (primary)
- father of: Ayar Cachi
- father of: Ayar Uchu
- father of: Ayar Auca
- father of: Mama Huaco
- father of: Mama Cura
- father of: Mama Raua
- father of: InkarriNúñez del Prado (1970) — post-contact Q'ero tradition (secondary)
- lover: Unnamed Andean WomanReciprocal of andean_woman.lover — Mortal Andean woman who bears the messianic Inkarri to the sun-god Inti in post-contact Q'ero tradition; Inkarri already lists both as parents.Ortiz Rescaniere, De Adaneva a Inkarri (1973); Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca (1986) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales (1609) (primary); Cieza de León, Crónica del Perú (1553) (primary)