Hawk Ghost of Aymara

ghost · Bolivia · South America

Not independently attested as a figure of Aymara tradition. The Aymara sacred birds documented at Isluga are the condor, the eagle and the chullumpe water-bird; no 'hawk ghost' appears in the literature, and the account of a spectral hawk guiding lost souls and carrying yatiri offerings is invented. The achachilas and Pachamama invoked in the entry are genuine, but the hawk is not.

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