Apu (god)

Apu or Wamani is the name given to the mountain deities, widely enjoy worship to this day in the Quechua population in southern Peru. Even with the Aymara the mountains are worshiped.

The term Apu means in Quechua "Lord" ( cf. Apurimac and Apu Ollantay and Kichwa of Ecuador Apunchik, "Our Lord God " ), but its meaning has in some regions concentrated on the meaning of " Herrenberg ".

Some of the larger mountains, including for example the Apu Awsanqati ( Ausangate ) in Peru, or Apu Illimani in Bolivia, are - in addition to the panandinen deity Pachamama - revered over large areas of time, for which they constitute a protective deity. In the myth of Wiraquchapampa, told in Quechua village Q'ero, defeat the combined Apus a Spanish army and thereby save the last few surviving Inca ancestors of today's Q'ero Indians from total destruction.

In Huarochirí manuscript is for the mountain deities (eg Paryaqaqa and Wallallu Qarwinchu ) the term Wak'a used today, however, referred in southern Peru only minor local deities.

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