Spirituality: Chuqui Chinchay
Spirituality: Chuqui Chinchay Ancient Incas worshipped a dual gendered mountain deity named chuqui chinchay. This deity was also the patron of dual-gendered individuals such as the quariwarmi, the shamans who attended this gods wishes and rituals belonged to a third gender. Part of these rituals required same-sex erotic practices. The quariwarmi wore neither male nor female clothing, to represent, “a visible sign of a third space that negotiated between the masculine and the feminine, the present and the past, the living and the dead.” They represented dualism in Andean cosmology and their existence resists being taken out of their cultural context to be fit into a non-native Andean classification. The arrival of the Portuguese, however, destroyed the culture as it was. This touches on the relationship between sex and spirituality. Religion often informed ideas of sex and sexuality, which makes it difficult, or impossible, to impose western ideas of sex and sexuality onto any spec...
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