Mama Quilla

In the genealogical framework preserved in the sources, Mama Quilla is a daughter of the creator god Viracocha and is paired with Inti, the sun. She is named as the mother of Manco Cápac and Mama Uqllu (Mama Ocllo), the mythical founders of the Inca empire and culture; through this maternal role she participates in the origin and legitimization of Inca rulership and social order. The sources present her both as a celestial power (the moon) and as an ancestral progenitor whose familial relations tie lunar agency to the foundation myths of the Inca polity.

The provided sources supply no iconographic or physical description for Mama Quilla. No consistent anthropomorphic features, garments, symbols, animals, or pictorial attributes are recorded in the supplied material; her presence is attested in genealogies, calendrical roles, and social functions rather than in surviving descriptive imagery from these excerpts.

Sources identify Mama Quilla primarily as the goddess of the moon, indicating her agency over lunar cycles and their social implications, and state that she was important for the Inca calendar. She is described as the goddess of marriage and the menstrual cycle and as a defender of women, framing her as a divine regulator and protector of female social and reproductive domains. As mother of culture-heroes, she also functions within myths that confer lineage and political legitimacy to the Inca ruling order. The supplied material does not enumerate additional supernatural powers, techniques of interaction with humans, or specific miracle stories.