Qollari
Q'ero/Quechua · demigod · pre inca · Recorded classification
Qollari is the female protagonist of the Inkarrí-Qollari myth cycle recorded in Q'ero and other communities of southern Peru from the 1950s onward. In the Q'ero version collected by Óscar Núñez del Prado, the creator spirit Roal gives life to Inkarrí and Qollari as the first man and woman of the present age. Her name mirrors Inkarrí's: as Inkarrí derives from 'Inka rey' (Inca king), Qollari derives from 'Qolla rey', the sovereign of the Qolla altiplano south-east of Cusco, so that the couple personifies the classic Andean dual division between the Inca heartland and the Qollasuyu. In some regional versions the two compete in feats of founding and world-ordering, expressing the complementary opposition of the two moieties.
Domains
- ancestral founding
- fertility
Powers
- to found and mother a people as primordial ancestress
Relations
- consort of: InkarriQollari is the female companion of Inkarrí, created with him by Roal; in the paired Inkarrí-Qollari narratives the two embody the complementary duality of the Inca and Qolla regions.Ossio, Juan M. (ed.). Ideología mesiánica del mundo andino. Lima: Ignacio Prado Pastor, 1973. (secondary)
Sources
- Qollari is the primordial woman of the southern Peruvian Quechua Inkarrí-Qollari myth cycle, created by Roal as companion and counterpart of Inkarrí and embodying the Qolla (altiplano) half of the Andean world.: Ossio, Juan M. (ed.). Ideología mesiánica del mundo andino. Lima: Ignacio Prado Pastor, 1973. (secondary); Ortiz Rescaniere, Alejandro. De Adaneva a Inkarrí: una visión indígena del Perú. Lima: Retablo de Papel Ediciones, 1973. (secondary)