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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2014, 09:33 AM Jul 2014

Today, July 25, is the Inca Festival day for Illapa.

Illapa ("thunder and lightning"; aka Apu Illapu, Ilyap'a, Katoylla) was a very popular weather god. His holiday was on July 25. He was said to keep the Milky Way in a jug and use it to create rain. He appeared as a man in shining clothes, carrying a club and stones. He was formerly the main god of the Kingdom of Qulla after which the Qullasuyu province of the Inca Empire was named.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_mythology

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