#yananchay

[andean-deer]

unveiling my take on the quariwarmi* flag!

edit: my sincere thanks to @ayachaska for the helpful feedback!

Quariwarmi is typically spelled this way when translated, but our languages don’t use the QU sound. Some people spell it qhariwarmi, and there are variations, I use qariwarmi.

Qariwarmi + Tinkuy Flag

please DO NOT USE MY DESIGN TO FURTHER YOUR PRODUCTS IF YOU ARE NOT QARIWARMI URSELF. ahem,

I have designed this one in the vein of a sunrise, or a dawn. As qariwarmi were historically entrusted with bringing about the dawning of new days, and with it, the watering of fields. It could be likened to the Paqari / dawn version of a flag.

EDIT: This was made possible with input from fellow qariwarmi people. Thank you, paylla!!!

It follows a tricolor pattern: sky blue, sunny yellow, and a peachy orange shade. They represent Hanaq Pacha , Kay Pacha, and Uku Pacha.

Symmetrical symbols as follows,

ONE : CHAKANA , gray to black in the center.

TWO : CONDOR FEATHERS , representing the messenger of the heavens.

THREE: EYES OF THE GREAT CHUQUI CHINCHAY , shining down from that liminal dwelling within kay pacha. it’s eyes are silver with copper pupils and gold stars twinkling, a nod to Chuqui Chinchay’s multi-gendered nature.

FOUR : THE WRITHING MACH’AQWAY based off watapuñuq (the boa), dweller of uku pacha and subterranean land.

It is an identity spanning from the convergence of two rivers, the Mosna and the Huanchesca at the sacred site known today as Chavín de Huantar / Chawpin Wantar.

I really don’t feel the need to explain the complexities with this identity, but you should know that it is an identity that originated within the Quechua language, and belongs to people in the Andes who are native to the region. However, it is not just a Quechua identity and has applications for other language speaking groups as long as they are in the Andes.

Tinkuy people, this is yours to use as well, just y’know credit me, pretty please.

[andean-deer]

vagueposting but i had someone come into my dms and ask for sources and i mustve blanked cuz i gave them the least noteworthy bit of information out there strung together by some white english guy.

anyway for those of yall that wanna generalize the attitudes of the incas towards f/ggotry, i mean. idgaf anymore.

keep glamorizing empire. empire which builds itself through cycles of rebirth and economic structure… ex: marriages and childrearing.

we had proud traditions yes of f/ggotry indeed, but not in all forms and not in all places as you will find. marriage was largely economic / social and love was a more romanticized aspect of these bonds. if a group had children they could raise them in security. as homosexuals, people lived outside the binds of marriage and weren’t usually seen as child rearers, so things were less solidified, and possibly ranged from one to multiple relationships. they could be fleeting encounters, or could have lasted a long time. the sad fact remains that we will never know (unless u count the pampayruna of chinchay suyu/ courtesans of officials, possibly linked to transvestite traditions of qariwarmi.. it’s not clear.)

[a lot has changed now, okay. let’s not forget that. this is the old perspective.]

wikipedia’s page on “homosexuality in ancient peru” is literally full of references. some which cannot be discredited for biased reporting, as with garlic lasso de la vegetable and seasoning of lion. we get it, you wanted to be seen as equals with the same vitriol towards those damn s/domites.

we have references to Lluq’i Yupanki (1260-1290) punishing people for [stealing, killing and sodomy] - martin de murúa /yea he was a fucking bastard and he wrote his history books to favor colonizing the peoples/, but the mention of Yupanki lends credence to this. Lluq’i Yupanki is credited with creating the public market in Qusqu, and establishing the tradition of the House of the Chosen Women : Akllawasi. He is considered the 3rd Inca. He was from Qusqu. That is the South.

It is noted by those referenced here that the South and Central regions of the Inca Empire were not tolerant of homosexuality. They consider the North to be more tolerant. (still a very monolithic view, but perhaps true of later rulerships).

However, we also have Qhapaq Yupanki (1320-1350), who is credited with supporting lesbians of a warlike kind, and he is Qusqun. He was the 5th Inca …until his concubine wife poisoned him. Note the huge time difference.

[andean-deer]

not a fan of creating division,, so like side by side QW / Tinkuy flags

*Tinkuy is an alternate label used by Andean people in place of QW, in a more liminal vein and in a less traditional sense than QW which people often just see as ‘man-woman’

I don’t know if those who identify that way have agreed on a Tinkuy specific flag just yet…

This shift in identity was featured in a subreddit where flag designs were posted by vomit-gold on Reddit (1 year ago)