The myth of Pilcosisa y Mama Huaco: mothers of a diagnosed dynasty

Abstract

In this article we will analyze the myth of Mama Huaco and Pilcosisa, for this we have the only references that, up to now, mention this mythical story: La Nueva Coronica y buen gobierno of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala and the Memorial de las Historias del Nuevo Mundo, Perú of the Franciscan friar Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova. In this work we will only discuss those aspects related to the representation of women as fertilizers of evil in the Inca empire, since both women / deities / sorceresses were represented as mothers of the Inca Manco Capac, the future monarch of the Andean civilization. Despite the scant information available to us, in order to reconstruct the lives of women in the Andean world in the seventeenth century, we know that it is no coincidence that in this range of time inquisitorial cases of devils have proliferated. We think that this story is not just a transposition of the classical model of myth but also impregnates a truly instructive or exemplary character, of what it is to be a good woman, for the colonized society.