Primary sources presented in the notes frame Pacha Kamaq as the creator and animator of the entire universe — "he who creates the world" or "he who sustains the universe" — derived etymologically from Quechua pacha + kamay + -q. Coastal polities on the central Peruvian coast worshipped him prior to Inca incorporation; in late Inca formulations (a syncretic, imperial placement) he was described as father of Inti and Mama Killa and husband of Mama Pacha, a genealogical position reflecting the Inca tendency to integrate regional cults rather than necessarily an original coastal narrative.
The supplied sources do not provide a consistent anthropomorphic description. Some accounts (via chronicler Garcilaso as cited) characterize Pachacámac as unseen or unknown — worshipped internally or mentally by some groups — implying traditions in which he is not depicted visually. Archaeological catalog entries in the notes reference the Pachacamac site and objects but do not supply clear iconographic details in the excerpts provided.
Sources attribute to Pacha Kamaq the role of creator and sustainer of the universe and describe him as controlling the balance of the world. Various natural and cosmological spheres are associated with him in the sources (for example fire, sky, night, earth, earthquakes), though those attributes are presented as among multiple domains linked to him rather than an exhaustive list. In some accounts he is conceived as an all-encompassing, unseen life-giving presence rather than a localized patron with limited powers.
Viracocha
Viracocha (Quechua Wiraqucha, Huiracocha) is the principal creator and civilizing deity in pre-Inca and Inca mythology, portrayed as the originator of the universe, time, and human society who emerges from watery places to bring light, order, and knowledge.
Inti
Inti is the principal Inca solar deity — a politicized and multilayered sun-power central to Inca state religion, agriculture, and dynastic legitimation. Treated as both the divine Sun and an ancestral source for the ruling lineage, Inti was worshipped in temples (notably Qurikancha), honored in seasonal rites such as the Inti Raymi, and served by an institutional priesthood.
Pacha Mama
Pacha Mama is an Andean/Inca mother-deity representing 'space-time' and a universal, life-sustaining principle tied to earth, fertility, and the totality of the cosmos. Revered across the Andes, she functions as a foundational generative presence from which major cosmological principles are said to trace their origin.
Ovoo Spirits (sacred cairn spirits)
Spirits understood as the local, animating presences of ovoo (sacred cairn) sites within Mongolian shamanic practice (Böö Mörgöl/Tengerism). They function as place-spirits tied to specific cairns and the social-religious life surrounding those sites.
Oxylus
Oxylus (Greek: Ὄξυλος) is a name applied to multiple related figures in Greek tradition: a local woodland daimon associated with mountain beech-woods (son of a mountain-god and linked to Hamadryads), a genealogical offspring (son of Ares and Protogeneia in some accounts), and a mortal/foundational king of Elis recorded in regional heroic histories. The traditions treat these referents as distinct but related uses of the same name tied to landscape, kinship, and local founding narratives.
Oyagami
Oyagami (祖神 / 親神) is a category of ancestor/parent-deity in Japanese religious thought: an ancestral spirit worshipped by a clan or a parent-like kami that cares for humans. In some sectarian contexts (notably Tenrikyo) the term is used as the personal title of the supreme deity, rendered in English as "God the Parent."
Paasselkä Devils
In Finnish folklore, Paasselkä devils are a natural phenomenon that appears as light phenomena at Lake Paasselkä and surrounding areas. (Note: 1. Remove "natural phenomenon" from summary (they're considered natural but folklore-related) 2. Power tier is unclear; based on abilities, it's likely a Lesser or Minor Spirit (no interaction with hu)
Pabuji's Ravariya (Phad spirits)
A class of nonhuman attendant-spirits associated with the Rajasthani Epic of Pabuji and its performance forms (Phad painting and puppetry). They function as theatrical-cosmological agents within the epic’s narrative world, enacted and controlled by specialist performers and painters rather than described in sources as independently catalogued folkloric monsters.
Pacha (Inca mythology)
Cosmological concept representing the relationship between space and time in Inca mythology; an abstract entity embodying the interconnectedness of the physical world and time. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial, but a note or explanation on how it fits into that category would help clarify its role as a fundamental cosmic relationship. 2. The summary could be more accurate,)
Pacha Mama
Pacha Mama is an Andean/Inca mother-deity representing 'space-time' and a universal, life-sustaining principle tied to earth, fertility, and the totality of the cosmos. Revered across the Andes, she functions as a foundational generative presence from which major cosmological principles are said to trace their origin.
Pachacuti
Pachacuti is the name of the ninth Sapa Inca credited in Inca historiography with transforming the Cuzco chiefdom into the Tawantinsuyu empire and, simultaneously, a Quechua cosmological concept meaning a 'turning of the world' (pacha-kutiy). Sources present him both as a (possibly historic) ruler and as an ideological/cosmogonic signifier for epochal change.
Pachacámac
Pachacámac (Quechua: Pachakamaq) is both the name of a major pre-Columbian pilgrimage and temple complex on the central Peruvian coast and the creator deity associated with that sacred precinct. Sources portray Pachakamaq as an earth-making figure within regional Andean cosmologies whose cult endured at the Pachacámac site from ca. A.D. 200 through the late pre-Columbian period and was incorporated, in a subordinate role, into Inca religious administration.
Pachakutic
Transformative event in Inca tradition, marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial (not Greater), as it represents a cosmic change in the sun or Earth's movement, which is on a universal scale. - Appearance: Remove statement about no physical description exi)
Padma (Vishnu)
One of the four attributes of the Hindu deity Vishnu, representing creation and birth. (Note: * Power tier should be Ancient, as it represents a deity-level aspect of Vishnu. * Abilities: Padma doesn't have distinct abilities itself; the description should be revised to reflect its association)
Padmaprabha
Padmaprabha is the sixth tirthankara (ford-maker) of the current Jain cosmic age (avasarpini). A perfected arihant who attained omniscience (Kevala Jnana) and later moksha, he is venerated in Jain devotion and iconography, especially by his red lotus emblem and meditative depiction.
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