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MYTHICAL FIGURES
In the cosmo-vision of the Quichus there arc a series of mythical figures who aid the runa in respecting the norms that govern their three dimensional world.
INTIRUNA GHIRVU: (1) In primordial times, men turned themselves into astral bodies, animals, or plants to protect their descendants. The finest hunter of the forest decided to become the sun, Inti Runa.
JURI JURI HUARMI: (2) A gorgeous anthropophagous woman, she was taken to a settlement by men who pursued Amasanga, but they did not have the courage to kill her. She remained there until the residents began to be suspicious of her because those who came with her had disappeared. One day while she slept, they discovered that on her neck, under her black hair, she had another mouth with which she ate men. They immediately killed her. She belongs to the Ucu Pacha.
NUNGUI OR NUNGULIHUARMI: (3) This is the fertility spirit, the symbol of fecundity which makes possible abundant production in chacras, the family plots. Thus, women and their daughters identify with her and, during the planting of the yuca, they call on her, singing a taki, a sacred chant, asking that she come to live in the chacra.
LIUI TU PUTU SUPAI: (4) This is one of the largest and longest-living trees in the forest. Its resident spirit is the Uchit Potts Sispaf, a man who wears a large hat and carries an axe on his shoulder with which he strikes the gigantic roots of the tree as a sign of his presence. The Ucho Puto Scipa permits many birds and animals to live in him. Sometimes in the morning in the forest, there are tremendous storms that pass quickly. They say that these are caused by the axe of the Uchit Potts Sispaf who, because he has gone to visit his girlfriend, has been "caught by the day." That, in order to return without being seers, he causes this kind of storms.