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ofrenda (Span): (n) Sacred offering. Also called despacho (Span), pago (Span), or haywa. ROR
ofrenda quemada (Span): (n) Burnt offering. (See, ruphasqa haywa.) ROR
ojos de luz (Span): (n) Literally, eyes of light; energy centers of the luminous body. (See, ñawi.)
oni (Panoan): Ayahuasca. There are three types of ayahuasca differentiated by the Shipibo according to color. AYV (See, panshin oni, josho oni, huizo oni.)
oni xuma (Amawaka): (n) Ayahuasca. THIM
Ono Pacakoti: See, Uñu Pachacuti.
onqosqa: (adj) Sick. PSL
onqoy, oncoy, unkuy: (n) Sickness. PSL
Onqoy: A name used for the Pleiades. AEAA
onqoykuy:(v) To be sick. PSL
opakuna: (n) Literally, deaf and dumb ones. Ritual baths in which an Inca subject, at the end of the ychuri, washed away hucha and were preferably done at the juncture of two streams. ICHB
oray: (v) To pray (sp.).PSL
Orcochillay: See, Urcuchillay.
ordinary reality (Eng): See, tonal.
orejones (Span): Literally, big ears, a Spanish nickname for the Inca nobility because of their practice of piercing their ears and inserting large gold spools. This was seen by the Inca as a divine sanction from Wiracocha for ruling the empire. It was a practice that actually pre-dated the Inca and was found in the Moche civilization. MAN
organizing principles (Eng): (n) These are the patterns of the organization of the universe via energy. JLH (See, saiwa,
munay,
nuna,
chekak,
yuya,
ch'ulla,
kallari,
kawsay.)
orqhoy: (v) To take out, to extract. RSL
ortiga (Span): (n) (Urtica dioica) Shrub with jagged leaves that have small hooks on them. Used for extractions of structural density to get kawsay moving again. JLH The plant also has many uses as an herbal curative.
otorongo, uturunqu: (n) Jaguar. Comes from a pre-Incan civilization, the Chavin, who had cat-like depictions all over their holy sites. MAN (See, fanged deities.)
otra nación: (n) Literally, other nation. According to residents of Misminay, in addition to the kaypacha, there is another world directly below, the other nation, distinct from the ukhupacha. It is the place where the dead go. There everything happens just the opposite to the way it happens on this earth: our sunrise is their sunset, our day is their night, our earth is their sky. The beings who live there are red and have wings and are called condores. The only animal is the burro, which is the principal food animal of that world. The only plant food is the palm tree. ACES