page_title: Pacha (Inca mythology)
hierarchical_section_title: Pacha (Inca mythology)
caption_attribution_description: Runa Simi: Philipi Waman Puma de Ayala (1615: 911f.). CONZEDERACIÓN. Ticze caylla uira cocha, dios maypim canqui? Hanac pachapicho? Uco pachapicho? Ticze caylla pachapicho? Runa camac, allpamantallutac, cay pacha ymaymanatapas rurac. (T'iksi qaylla wira qucha, dios maypim kanki? Hanaq pachapichu? Ukhu pachapichu? T'iksi, qaylla pachapichu? Runa kamaq, allpamanta llut'aq, kay pacha imaymanatapas ruraq.) Español: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1615: 911f.). CONZEDERACIÓN. Ticze caylla uira cocha, dios maypim canqui? Hanac pachapicho? Uco pachapicho? Ticze caylla pachapicho? Runa camac, allpamantallutac, cay pacha ymaymanatapas rurac. (Dios, fundamental y presente, ¿dónde estás? ¿En la tierra superior? ¿En los lugares profundos? ¿O en esta tierra fundamental, cercana? Creador del hombre, que lo configuraste de la tierra, que hiciste este mundo y todo lo que existe. Traducción de Rolena Adorno).) English: Phelipe Guaman Poma de Aiala (1615: 911f.). CONZEDERACIÓN. Ticze caylla uira cocha, dios maypim canqui? Hanac pachapicho? Uco pachapicho? Ticze caylla pachapicho? Runa camac, allpamantallutac, cay pacha ymaymanatapas rurac. (Fundamental, nearby god, where are you? In the upper world? In the lower world? In the fundamental, nearby world? Creator of man, molding him out of earth, maker of this world and anything.) Deutsch: Phelipe Guaman Poma de Aiala (1615: 911f.). CONZEDERACIÓN. Ticze caylla uira cocha, dios maypim canqui? Hanac pachapicho? Uco pachapicho? Ticze caylla pachapicho? Runa camac, allpamantallutac, cay pacha ymaymanatapas rurac. (Grundlegender, anwesender Gott, wo bist du? In der oberen Welt? In der unteren Welt? In der grundlegenden, nahe gelegenen Welt? Schöpfer des Menschen, der du ihn aus Erde formtest, der diese Welt und alle Dinge schuf.)
context_page_description: The pacha was an Incan concept for dividing the different spheres of the cosmos in Incan mythology. There were three different levels of pacha: the hana pacha, hanan pacha or hanaq pacha, ukhu pacha, and kay pacha.The realms are not solely spatial, but were simultaneously spatial and temporal. Although the universe was considered a unified system within Incan cosmology, the division between the worlds was part of the dualism prominent in Incan beliefs, known as Yanantin. This dualism found that everything which existed had both features of any feature.
context_section_description: The pacha ([pætʃæ], often translated as world) was an Incan concept for dividing the different spheres of the cosmos in Incan mythology. There were three different levels of pacha: the hana pacha, hanan pacha or hanaq pacha (Quechua, meaning "world above"), ukhu pacha ("world below"), and kay pacha ("this world").The realms are not solely spatial, but were simultaneously spatial and temporal.  Although the universe was considered a unified system within Incan cosmology, the division between the worlds was part of the dualism prominent in Incan beliefs, known as Yanantin. This dualism found that everything which existed had both features of any feature (both hot and cold, positive and negative, dark and light, etc.).
caption: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala mentions hanaq pacha, ukhu pacha and tiksi qaylla pacha (kay pacha) in his Nueva coronica i buen gobierno (1615), p. 912. The first human beings, the Wari Wiraqucha Runa (Uari Uira Cocha Runa), were said to pray to the Creator: "Fundamental, nearby god, where are you? In the upper world? In the lower world? In the fundamental, nearby world? Creator of man, molding him out of earth, maker of this world and anything."
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