Vtvbre Vma Raimi Quilla · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Vtvbre Vma Raimi Quilla
Subject: Rain; Agriculture; Runa Camac; Llama; Sacrifice; Gods; Inca Empire; Inca; Inca Emperor; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Months; October
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru; Cusco
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the traditions and rituals of each month during the Inca Empire. The Incas tracked the months and years through the stars and their months consisted of thirty days. This image depicts the month of October, which was dedicated to making sacrifices to Runa Camac for rain for their crops. They would tie up llamas and starve them in order to make them weep. This is depicted on the left side of the image. The people would walk from hilltop to hilltop while weeping and crying and chanting to the god Runa Camac to provide them with rain. This is also depicted in the image as a crowd of people standing in front of the llama have tears running down their face. The caption on the image reads “carnero negro ayuda a llorar y a pidir agua a dios con la hambre que tiene, procicion que piden agua a dios runa camag.” This translates to “a black llama that is hungry assists in weeping and asking the gods for water, procession in which god Runa Camac is asked for rain.”
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20310
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_20310_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Rain; Agriculture; Runa Camac; Llama; Sacrifice; Gods; Inca Empire; Inca; Inca Emperor; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Months; October

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