Draft:Ruk'ana Qutu
Ruk'ana Qutu (also known as: Rucanacoto or Runacoto) is a god named in the Huarochirí manuscript. Ruk'ana Qutu is considered a wak'a linked to sexuality and male fertility.[1]
Etymology
[edit]Ruk'ana Qutu is a compound name from Quechua: Ruk'ana (finger) and Qutu (whole, heap, group or something large).[2]
The name of the deity refers to the middle finger of the hand, a hidden allusion to the disproportionate size of his phallus.[3] [4]
Representation
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The deity Ruk'ana Qutu was described as a male wak'a whose main characteristic was the enormous size of his phallus.
According to the Huarochirí source, Ruk'ana Qutu was consecrated with a sanctuary located on the hill overlooking the town of Mama.
According to the same source, Ruk'ana Qutu was a wak'a of good prestige for men who possessed a small virile member; since those men went to Ruk'ana Qutu and asked him for the divine favor of enlarging it.[1]
History and Mythology
[edit]Chawpi Ñamka and the wak'a Ruk'ana Qutu
[edit]The following myth takes place in the ancient times of the town of San Pedro, also known as Mama. This town was so called because the goddess Chawpi Ñamka, transformed into a five-winged statue, established her dwelling in that place.
The myth begins with the following:
In primordial times, Chawpi Ñamka, desirous of finding sexual pleasure, walked in the form of a woman and used to sin (have sexual relations) with all the wak'as.
In spite of this, the goddess could not find any man who could reach the level of delighting her.
At that time there was a wak'a called Ruk'ana Qutu, whose sanctuary was located on the hill overlooking Mama; those men who possessed a small virile member went to Ruk'ana Qutu and asked him for the divine favor of enlarging it.
Ruk'ana Qutu was a wak'a who stood out for the exorbitant and pronounced size of his phallus. This characteristic made it possible for him to satisfy Chawpi Ñamka completely.
The goddess Chawpi Ñamka judged Ruk'ana Qutu as a true male and, of all the wak'as, she was going to stay eternally with him. To this end, the goddess transformed herself into stone and established her abode in Mama.[1]
See also
[edit]- Chawpi Ñamka
- Huarochirí Manuscript
- Min
- Inca Mythology
- Príauso
- Phallic Symbol
- ^ a b c Taylor, Gerald. "Ritos y tradiciones de Huarochirí" (PDF). Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ Julio Calvo Pérez. "Nuevo diccionario: Español - Quechua (Volumen 2)" (PDF). Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ José Antonio Hudtwalcker Morán (2011). "Chaupiñamca y el baile del Casayaco: alcances preliminares del estudio iconográfico del manto pintado encontrado por Max Uhle en la isla San Lorenzo". Arqueología y Sociedad (23): 93–132. doi:10.15381/arqueolsoc.2011n23.e12309. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ Mario Polia (1996). "Siete cartas inéditas del Archivo Romano de la Compañía de Jesús (1611-1613): huacas, mitos y ritos andinos". Anthropologica. 14 (14): 209–259. doi:10.18800/anthropologica.199601.012. Retrieved 13 December 2023.