QUECHUA GLOSSARY

AKUYEK--to chew
ALLPA--earth element
ALTOMESAYOK--Paqo who owes his allegiance to the Apus, one of
the high altar
AMARU--cosmic serpent, great transformer/mulcher, water serpent
ANCAeagle
ANTISUYUnortheast quadrant of the Tawantinsuyu
APACHITA--a pile of specially energized stones constructed at a
mountain pass to release the heavy energy that they contain, Take it
away
APU--spirit of a sacred mountain
APU CHIN--condor, a great visionary, Flying Apu
APURIMAC--talking apu
AUSANGATE--sponsoring Apu of the Qero nation
AYA--death
AYAHUASCA--vine of death
AYLLU--kinship group or community
AYLLU APU--spirit of a mountain that protects a community
AYLLU KAUSAY--collective energy of an ayllu
AYNI--balance or reciprocity
CAMAC--creator
CAMAY--to create
CAMAYOKa specialist
CANCHAY--to encircle
CANOPA--a llama carved of stone, filled with untu, and buried in the
ground to insure fertility of crops and animals
CAPAC RAYMI--December Solstice Festival for the dead
CEKE or CEQUE--ley line, 40 of these radiate out from the Coricancha
in Cusco
CHACAbridge
CHAKA RUNABridge Person, one who can walk between the worlds
CHACANA--ladder or stairway
CHAKANAInca cross
CHACLLA--foot plow
CHASKA--star or Venus in the evening
CHECKA, or CHEKAQ--absolute truth
CHICHA--corn beer
CHINCHAYSUYUnorthwest quadrant of the Tawantinsuyu
-CHISsuffix, to us
CHOKACHINCHAY--Rainbow Jaguar
CHULLAQ--oneness, becoming one with everything
CHULLPA--round burial tower from the Lake Titicaca area
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COLCA--the Pleiades
COLLASUYUsoutheast quadrant of the Tawantinsuyu
CONTISUYUsouthwest quadrant of the Tawantinsuyu
CORICONCHA--Temple of the Sun in Cusco
COSCO--navel (also qosqo)
COYA--Inca queen
COYARI--Inca queen, divine feminine
CUTI--turn over, turn back (also kuti)
DESPACHO--ceremonial medicine bundle
ENKA--fertility, well being, balance, light
ESTRELLA--guiding star
HALLKI MALLKI--winged beings of light
HALLPAY--chewing coca leaves in a social or non-sacred setting
HAMPI--healer
HAMPUMUY--come out
HAMPUMUYCHIS--come to us
HAMPUY--come
HANAN--upper
HANAQ--highest
HANAQ HUACAYOK--one who is able to see the world above
HANAQPACHA--upper world
HANPATU--toad
HAPU--perfectly harmonized yanantin energies
HATUN--great
HATUN COCHA--ocean
HATUN KARPAY--great karpay, or energy transmission
HAYAYA--victory of the heart
HINA--such as, like
HUACA--energetic power place or object containing sami, intercessor
with the Divine
HUACAYPATA--central plaza in Cusco
HUAMAN--hawk
HUAMANTIANA--seat of the hawk, Saksayhuaman
HUANCA--stone pillar ceremonially placed in a community to insure
fertility
HUASCAR--guardian of the Ukhupacha
HUAYRUROS--red and black seeds from the amazon representing the
male and female principles
HUCHA--heavy energy
HUCHA MIKHUY--eating, metabolizing or combusting houcha
HUCHUY--little
HURIN--lower
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IKARO--ceremonial song or chant, ayahuasca song

ILLA--light, also lineage stone representing fertility
ILLAPA--lightening
ILLA TIXI WIRACOCHA--source light of the Wiracocha (or Ticci)
INCARI--Inca king, divine masculine
ILLIASQA--illuminated person
INTI--sun
INTIHUATANA--Hitching Post of the Sun
INTI KANAbeing of light, one with Inti
INTIQ CHURIKUNAChildren of the Sun (humans)
INTI TAITA--father sun
ITU APU--sponsoring Apu of your birth place
KALLARIY--embodiment
KANTUred trumpet shaped flower, national flower of Peru
KAPAQ AN--Milky Way, also royal roads leading out from Cusco
KARPAY--rite of passage, energetic transmission
KATACHILLAY--constellation of the female llama and her offspring
KAUSAY--unmanifest energy of creation, life force
KAUSAY KANCHAY--the world of light
KAUSAY PACHA--world of vital or living energy, our energetic food
KAUSAY WAYRA--the world of air, wind, inspiration
KAWAK--seer
KAY--this
KAYAO--tertiary level of energy, literal
KAYPACHA--middle world
KENTI--hummingbird
KILLA--moon
KINTU--blessing made of 3 coca leaves, red and white carnation
petals
KOLLANA--primary level of energy, spirit essence
KOYLLUR--Venus in the morning, star
-KUNA--pleural form
KUNAY PACHA--present time
KUNTUR--condor
KURAK--elder
KURAK AKUYEK--one who chews the coca leaves, also a paqo who has
transcended time and space
KUTI--to turn over
KUYA--medicine stone, beloved
KUYCHI--rainbow
LLACA--war lance
LLAMAQ AWIN--Eyes of the Llama, alpha and beta Centauri
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LLANKAY--energy center representing doing or work

LLANKAYNIYOQKITA--gift us with your power
LLAPAN--all of the in the cosmos
LLAPAN APUKUNA--all of the Apus of creation
LLOKE--magic
LLOQE--left side magical practices, intuitive, feminine
LLUTHU--partridge, tinamou
MACHAY--cave
MACHU--old, ancient
MALLKIKUNA--luminous beings of the higher dimensions
MALLKU--ancient one
MALLKUKUNA--ancestors
MAMA COCHA--spirit of the ocean or a large body of water, spirit of
the waters
MAMA QUILLA--grandmother moon
MAMA SARA--corn goddess
MANCO KAPACfirst Inca
MARCA--temple, highest part of a house
MASINTIN--relationship of 2 similar people, objects, or qualities
MASTAY--order
MAYU--river
MESA--altar, Andean medicine bundle
MESA MASTAY--mesas open and linked in a circle to share energy
MESTANA--Qero babys receiving blanket, mesa cloth
MIKHUY--combust, eat, mulch
MISKYsweet
MOSOQthe time to come
MUKI--keeper of the riches of the earth, guide to the Ukhupacha
MUNAY--unconditional love
MUNAYNIYOQKITA--Gift us with your love
AN--road
AWIN--eyes
AWPAQ PACHA--the past, or the time before us
NINA--fire element
NUNAQ--spirit
NUSTA--embodiment of the Goddess
NYALPARUNA--first homo sapiens, cave men
OTORONGO--jaguar
PACARINA--birthing place, a spring or a cave, place of dawning
PACHA--world or era (age), cosmos, space-time intersection
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PACHA KAMAQ--creator god

PACHAKUTI--guardian of the Hanaqpacha, or turning over of an age
PACHAMAMA--earth mother
PACHAYACHACHI--world teacher
PAMPAMESAYOK--a paqo that owes his allegiance to the Pachamama,
one of the low altar
PAA--right side, masculine, analytical and logical, mystical practices
PANAY--sister in arms
PAQO--medicine person of the Andes, healer
PAYAN--secondary level of energy, mythic or symbolic
PHUKUYto blow, the ritual blowing of blessings into a Kintu
PHURURUNA--stone people
PICCHU--peak
PICHAY--to cleanse or clear
PINKULLOS--gold and silver flutes
POQPO--the bodys Luminous Energy Field
PUKLLAY--play
PUMA--mountain lion
PUNCU--door
PUQUIO--spring
QAWAY--to see energetically using shamanic awareness without the
physical eyes
QHEPA--behind
QHEPA PACHA--future, or the time behind us
QOLGI--color of silver
QORI--color of gold
QOLLARITI--Snow Star, also a festival 30 days before winter solstice
QOSQO--navel or opening into the Poqpo
QUIPU--knotted string for keeping accounts
RANTI--perfectly harmonized masintin energies
RIMAC--to talk
RIMAYKULLAYKIHello
RITI--snow
RUNA--person
RUNAKUNA--people
SACHAMAMAgiant two headed serpent that lives in the jungle,
guardian of the green world, the Amazon
SACHARUNA--plant people
SALKA--wild or untamed
SAMI--light energy
SAMINCHUKUY--the act of moving houcha out of the poqpo, down

through the root chakra and into the Pachamama while at the same
time, filling the crown chakra with sami
SAMIYOKone who receives sami
SAPA--alone, solo
SAPA INCA--Inca king
SARA--corn
SAYWA--column of energy uniting the 3 worlds, or a principal of
spiritual evolution
SAYWACHAKUY--the movement of energy through a column
connecting the three worlds, from source to the Pachamama
SIRWAR KENTI--great hummingbird
SONQO--heart
SUNCHIS--let us
SUYUregion
TAKE--third level of engagement, the joining of energies, harmonizing
the compliment of differences so that the sum is greater than the
parts
TARIPAY PACHA--the age of meeting ourselves again, age of
enlightenment
TAWANTINSUYU--Inca 4 chambered cosmology, the Inca Empire
TAYTACHA TEMBLORES--Lord of the Earthquakes, Christ
TICCI--source, beginning, prime cause
TIKA--flowers
TINQUY--first level of engagement, first encounter touching energy
body of energy body
TUNAPAWiracocha
TUPANANCHISCAMAUntil I see you again
TUPAY--second level of engagement, competition or domination
TUKUYEverything, total, fully developed
TUKUYMUNAYNIYOK--the all encompassing power of unconditional
love
UKHUPACHA--lower world
UNTU--llama fat
UNU--water element
UNU KAUSAY--energy or spirit of the water
URKUCHILLAY--celestial male llama, alpha
constellation of Lyra
UYWAKUNA--animals

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VILCAMAYUsection of the Urubamba river that flows through the

Sacred Valley, River of the Sun
VILCANOTA--southern section of the Urubamba River, also Place of
the Sun, a mountain in the Vilcanota range (Ausangate?)
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WARMI--woman
WARMIKUNAwomen
WASIa house
WAYKI--brother in arms, cosmic twin, timeless self
WAYRAwind
WAYRURUred or red and black seed from the Amazon
WILLKIS--guardian angels, fireflies, cherubs
WIRACOCHA--Inca creator god, 8th chakra
WIRACOYA--Peruvian herb used as incense
WISCA--encase, entrap, disrupt
YA--now
YACHAY--energy center representing knowledge and inner sight
YACHAYNIYOQKITA--gift us with your wisdom
YAKUMAMAgiant two headed serpent that lives in the rivers of the
jungle, river of Light
YANACHAKUYtransfer of power
YANANTIN--relationship of 2 dissimilar people, objects, or qualities
YANAYMI--my equivalent one, spouse in the Andes
YOQ/YOKsuffix denoting possession, as in one who has, does, etc
YUYAQ--absolute wisdom