Inti

Inti (Quechua: inti, lit. 'sun') is the ancient Inca sun god. He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun.^[1] Worshiped as a patron deity of the Inca Empire,^[2] Pachacuti is often linked to the origin and expansion of the Inca Sun Cult.^[3]^[4] The most common belief was that Inti was born of Viracocha, who had many titles, chief among them being the God of Creation.^[5]

The word inti is not of Quechua origin but a loanword from Puquina.^[6] Borrowing from Puquina explains why historically unrelated languages such as Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche have similar words for the Sun.^[6]^[7] Similitudes are not only linguistic but also symbolically as in Mapuche and Central Andean cosmology the Sun (Inti/Antu) and the Moon (Killa/Cuyen) are spouses.^[8]

^ Conrad and Demarest 1984, pg.108
^ Cite error: The named reference inca was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Steele & Allen 2004, pg. 246
^ D'Altroy 2003, pg. 147
^ Cobo and Hamilton 1990, pg. 22
^ ^a ^b Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo. (2013). Las lenguas de los incas: el puquina, el aimara y el quechua. Frankfurt, Alemania: Peter Lang Academic Research.
^ Moulian, Rodrígo; Catrileo, María; Landeo, Pablo (2015). "Afines quechua en el vocabulario mapuche de Luis de Valdivia" [Akins Quechua words in the Mapuche vocabulary of Luis de Valdivia]. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada (in Spanish). 53 (2): 73–96. doi:10.4067/S0718-48832015000200004. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
^ Moulian, Rodrigo; Catrileo, María; Hasler, Felipe (2018). "Correlatos en las constelaciones semióticas del sol y de la luna en las áreas centro y sur andinas" [Correspondence of semiotic sun and moon constellations in the central and southern andes]. Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (in Spanish). 23 (2): 121–141. doi:10.4067/S0718-68942018000300121.

[conrad-1] Conrad and Demarest 1984, pg.108

[inca-2] Cite error: The named reference inca was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Steele_&_Allen_2004,_pg._246-3] Steele & Allen 2004, pg. 246

[D'Altroy_2003,_pg._147-4] D'Altroy 2003, pg. 147

[5] Cobo and Hamilton 1990, pg. 22

[Cerro-6] Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo. (2013). Las lenguas de los incas: el puquina, el aimara y el quechua. Frankfurt, Alemania: Peter Lang Academic Research.

[Moulianetal2015-7] Moulian, Rodrígo; Catrileo, María; Landeo, Pablo (2015). "Afines quechua en el vocabulario mapuche de Luis de Valdivia" [Akins Quechua words in the Mapuche vocabulary of Luis de Valdivia]. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada (in Spanish). 53 (2): 73–96. doi:10.4067/S0718-48832015000200004. Retrieved January 13, 2019.

[8] Moulian, Rodrigo; Catrileo, María; Hasler, Felipe (2018). "Correlatos en las constelaciones semióticas del sol y de la luna en las áreas centro y sur andinas" [Correspondence of semiotic sun and moon constellations in the central and southern andes]. Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (in Spanish). 23 (2): 121–141. doi:10.4067/S0718-68942018000300121.

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