Chuqui Chinchay, deidad del agua
Subtitle: animal de poder en la cosmovisión Andina
By: Ana María Gálvez
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Sinco Editores
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lima, Perú
Language: spa
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9786124823701
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Antiquities
Description: A book that studies the presence of the cat in pre-Hispanic Peru as an agent of water and rain. When anthropologist Ana María Gálvez was commissioned the direction of the Casa Museo del Inca Garcilaso in Cusco, she designed a new museography. Among the important pieces that had been discovered in the last years in the city of the Incas there was a piece of stone found in Sacsayhuaman, that archaeologists had named "mayu puma", which, in Quechua, means "river otter". Studying the piece in more detail she observed that the animal depicted on the stone was not an otter. It was a cat, an Andean wildcat (andino, colocolo or wiedii), revered since pre-Incas cultures for being linked to water that is synonymous with life. After a long investigation, after studying iconography of ceramics and textiles, consulting chronicles, collate petroglyphs, myths and investigate languages such as Quechua, Aimara and Puquina, among her conclusions, she determined that it is the cat and not the jaguar, as until now it was believed, the animal with greater power in the pre-Hispanic cosmovision. The book is the outcome of the research work around this Prehispnic piece.

A book that studies the presence of the cat in pre-Hispanic Peru as an agent of water and rain. When anthropologist Ana María Gálvez was commissioned the direction of the Casa Museo del Inca Garcilaso in Cusco, she designed  a new museography. Among the important pieces that had been discovered in the last years in the city of the Incas there was a piece of stone found in Sacsayhuaman, that archaeologists had named "mayu puma", which, in Quechua, means "river otter". Studying the piece in more detail she observed that the animal depicted on the stone was not an otter. It was a cat, an Andean wildcat (andino, colocolo or wiedii), revered since pre-Incas cultures for being linked to water that is synonymous with life. After a long investigation, after studying iconography of ceramics and textiles, consulting chronicles, collate petroglyphs, myths and investigate languages such as Quechua, Aimara and Puquina, among her conclusions, she determined that it is the cat and not the jaguar, as until now it was believed, the animal with greater power in the pre-Hispanic cosmovision. The book is the outcome of the research work around this Prehispnic piece.
Notes: Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245).
Table of contents: title: Presentación; title: Prólogo; title: Palabras; title: Prefacio; title: Soporte metodologico; title: Felinos y descolonización del pensamiento; title: Preeminencia del ideario occidental y cosmovision andina; title: Proceso de deificación del gato montes; title: Titiuiracochan: Yncomprehensible Dios; title: El csomos: via lactea; title: La mesa cosmica; title: Fauna cosmica sagrada y proceso; title: De felinizacion antropomorfa; title: Espiritualidad andina y extirpacion de idolatrias; title: Taqui oncoy; title: El mito; title: La divinidad suprema; title: Registro de algunos sitios testimoniales; title: Chuqui Chinchay; title: Wah pacha; title: El caracter teocratico; title: Algunas experiencias; title: Representaciones del Osqollo en Cusco y Apurimac; title: Algunas representaciones de flinos en periodos neoinca, colonial y republicano; title: Petroglifos de Huancor; title: El Gato Montes en los Petroglifos, textiles y Metalurgia; title: Tareas pendientes; title: Conclusiones; title: Aportes y recomendaciones.