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uayror aklla: Alternate spelling of guayrur aklla. See, aklla for definition.
uhay, ukyay: (v) To drink. QP
uhu: (n) A cough. QP
uhuy: (v) To cough. QP
ukhu: (adj) Deep inside. QP Inner part; room (as in a house). RS
Ukhupacha, Uhupacha: (n) Literally, inner world. Primarily thought of as the abode of the overturned order of the past and all things hurin. CSCR The lower world or underworld, the place of intuition, dreams and the subconscious. AVO The underworld which lies in the center of the earth. It is a cold and dark place, where the souls of the damned are eternally hungry. WPO Underworld; underground world; interior world; lower world; unconscious; inside of the planet; the world within, traditionally symbolized by the serpent; hell (meaning after christianization). RS In the highlands of Ecuador, the Kaypacha and Ukhupacha are regarded as mirror images. ACES (See, ukhu, Ayar Ukhu.)
ukhupi: (adj) Inside, among. QP
ukuku: (n) (1) A spectacled bear, Tremarctos ornatus. (See, achupalla for another picture.) (2) A bear dancer seen at the Festival of Q’ollori’ti. The ukukus are the only people allowed onto the glacier. They are the peacekeepers of the festival and spiritual warriors in training, preparing for the return of the Inca. (See, Inkarrí.) ROR JLH SD
Ukuku, def. 1. The only ursine species in South America, the spectacled
bear is endangered.
ukyay: See, uhay. QP
uliyay: (n) Baptism. QP
ulluchu: (n) The ulluchu has symbolic significance, usually appearing in artworks in scenes relating to war and the ritual drinking of a prisoner's blood, a common practice in the Moche culture. The ulluchu fruit is laden with symbolism, usually appearing in scenes relating to war and the ritual drinking of a prisoner's blood. One theory suggests that the ulluchu, part of the papaya family with anticoagulant properties, is useful in forestalling blood clotting before a prisoner's blood was consumed. WHR
Ulluchu Man: A crab deity of Moche culture with the head and legs of a human and the carapace, legs, and claws of a crab, the gilded gold piece is more than two feet tall. This enigmatic figure with raised arms was once mounted on a fabric banner covered with gilded metal plates. (see black an white figure below.) He is called Ulluchu Man, because the banner yielded some of the first graphic samples of this ancient fruit ever discovered. (See, ulluchu.) WHR
uma: (n) Head, top. PSL
uma llaqta: (n) Capital city. QP
uma mastai: (n) Rite of creating a halo around head with your khuyas and communing with them. AVO
uma muyu: (n) Confusion. QP
uma muyuy: (v) To be confused; to be dizzy. PSL
uma nanay: (n) Headache. QP
uma t'ojpisqa: (adj) Crazy. PSL
umachakuy: (v) To understand. PSL
umayoj: (adj) Intelligent. PSL
umu, umuq: (n) (1) Wizard, diviner. HOI (2) Incan priest. QP Witch; priest (pagan), brujo. RS
unai: See, unay.
unancha: (n) A flag. QNO (See, wiphala, unanchasqa.)
unanchasqa: (n) One who is given a sign of power from a divine being; i.e., a saint. KOAK
unay, unai: (adv) In that time; long time ago; once upon a time; formerly; since; lengthy amount of time. (n) A delay, a slowing down; long time (real or imagined); time; duration. RS Mythic time-space, provides a rich cosmographic source of contemporary and ancient knowledge. WCE (v) To hesitate; to last; to take long; to slow down; to delay. RS
unkhu: (n) Traditional black Inca ceremonial shirt with a red seam made of alpaca and woven left-handed for spiritual power. NND
unkhuña: (n) A small woven cloth used to hold coca. ROR (See, ch’uspa.)
unqurawi: See, hunguráhui.
unquy: See, onqoy.
untu: (n) Pure fat from the chest of an alpaca or llama used in offerings. ROR JLH AVO
Uñallamacha: (n) Suckling baby llama. The Yana Phuyu constellation of the llama fetus. ACES
uñu, unu: (n) Water. PSL RS
uñu kawsay: (n) The living energy or spirit of water. NND
Uñu Pachacuti, Ono Pacakoti: (n) A great flood, of Inca legend, created by Wiracocha to kill a race of pre-human giants, saving two to help repopulate the globe. HOI EFD Wiracocha made humankind in his own image, first creating a generation of giants to inhabit the newly established world. But the giants displeased him, and he punished some by turning them to stone. The rest were swept away in the deluge that inundated the earth. IAWS (See, Pacaritambo, pachacuti.)
upa: (adj) Mute, deaf. QP
upichiya: (n) Sweet dove of my heart. JLH
Ura Cocha: (n) The Pacific Ocean. AWE
uraña wayra: (n) A terrible wind believed to cause stomach pain, vomiting and terror. ROR
Urcaguary: (n) Inca god of metals, jewels and other underground items of great value. WIC (See, Supay, Muki)
Urcuchillay: (n) The shepherds worshiped and sacrificed to a star they call Urcuchillay, which they say is a llama of many colors, which is concerned with the conservation of livestock, and it is understood to be the one that [astronomers] call Lyra. AEAA (See, Chocachinchay and Ancochinchay.)
urin: (n) See, hurin.
urkuchinantin: (n) (adj) Denotes androgynous characteristics of a unit, either male/female or female with male child. (n) Female urkuchinantin rainbows are red, male ones are blue. These colors refer to the dominant color in a rainbow or as the only colors seen. All red rainbows can only be seen moments before and a few minutes after sunset and are female because they are thought to survive into the night and the time of the moon. These are especially dangerous to women because they can move across the earth and enter the abdomen through the vagina, causing severe pain or death. ACES (See, k’uychi.)
Uros: (n) (1) A group of about 40 floating islets located in Lake Titicaca off Puno, Peru. (2) The pre-Inca people who fashioned and live on these islands. People have been living on these islands for many centuries. IGMP The Uros originally created these artificial islands to escape the Inca, who dominated the mainland at the time. Around 3,000 descendants of the Uros are alive today, although only a few hundred still live on and maintain the islands; most have moved to the mainland, where their children go to school. The Uros also bury their dead on the mainland. The islets are made of totora reeds, which grow in the lake. The dense roots that the plants develop support the islands. They are anchored with ropes attached to sticks driven into the bottom of the lake (see far right of picture below). The reeds at the bottoms of the islands rot away fairly quickly, so new reeds are added to the top to compensate. The islands last about 30 years. Food is cooked with fires placed on piles of stones. To relieve themselves, tiny 'outhouse' islands are near the main islands. The waste is dried in the sun to avoid polluting the water. WEAD
Uros villagers maintaining their floating island home.
Urpihua-Chac: (n) Inca goddess of fish and fishery. DRB
Uru Saiwa: (n) One of the sacred mountains. Its mystical significance expresses the use of the saiwas, philosophical maps; medicine practiced in total alignment so instinct is the power, not ego. JLH
usko: (adj) Spiritual. AYV
usnu: (n) High platform in the public plazas from which rulers or chiefs used to talk to their people. RS Used as a throne, altar and observatory. A seat or axis of symbolic order. CSCR
usqhaq: (adj) Speedy. QP
usqhay: (adv) Quickly (motion). QP
usqhaypaq: (adj) Urgent. QP
usqhayta: (adv) Immediately, ASAP.
ususi: (n) Daughter (of father). QP
uturunqu: See, otorongo. RS
uya: (n) The face. QP
uyakuy: (v) To agree to. QP
uyariy: (v) To listen, hear, understand. QP