The
Supay was a
malignant God. But it could be
transformed into a beneficient God. In order to obtain this change, apparently, intrinsic in the Supay, the villagers
ceremonial flatteries,
dances,
celebrations and other
manifestations to him that manage to content the being. Some peoples consider that in his religious dances they tried to
disguise itself to
similarity of the
Supay, giving origin to the later dance of the racially mixed
devils. For Miranda-Luizaga the Supay is the opposed pole, polarization, translated erroneously, devil. The evil spirits of the
Quechua-speaking
Incas of
Peru. It was also the name of the god of death and lord of the
Incan underworld. Today the
Catholic Indians of Peru and Bolivia apply the word to the
Devil.
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Incan Mythology.