Pariacaca

Pariacaca is a mountain and storm deity documented in the Huarochiri Manuscript, a Quechua-language religious text compiled around 1608 recording the traditions of the Huarochiri province in the central Peruvian Andes. In its account Pariacaca is born as five eggs on the mountain that bears his name, hatches into five falcons that become five human forms, and defeats the fire deity Huallallo Carhuincho, who had demanded human sacrifice, driving him out and becoming the region's principal object of worship in his place. The manuscript describes an intricate relationship between Pariacaca and the female deity Chaupi Namca, sometimes named his sister and sometimes a rival power in her own right, and records the annual Ayvire pilgrimage rites and irrigation ceremonies performed in his honor by communities across the province, some of which colonial priests recorded as still ongoing at the time of writing despite active church suppression.