Taki Onqoy o Ayra: Culto de los Lucanas y Soras

Quichua Chaico D. · Nawpa Pacha (2025) · DOI: 10.1080/00776297.2024.2399424

Resumen

This research focuses on the Lucanas and Soras, their links with the Spanish, and the Taki Onqoy. Using unpublished documentation, we consider that they were highly ritualized dualistic ethnic groups and their authorities, and due to their polydactyly, were considered human huacas. Taking advantage of their polydactyly, they distinguished themselves as the Anderos, dancers, and musicians of the Inca. When they suffered the attack of Atahualpa's forces, they supported the Spanish and established political, economic, and socio-cultural alliances in the viceroyalty. Thus, the Taki Onqoy was not a movement in rejection of Western expressions, but a cult of tough artistic competition (dance and singing) of life or death involving the curacas, the Inca bearers, dancers, musicians, and families with polydactyly. The survivors became deities, teachers dedicated to the direction of the Taki Onqoy and messengers of the huacas.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga