Mama Cocha – Inca Goddess Of The Sea With Strong Connection To Lake Titicaca, Peru

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – In one of our latest articles, we presented Mama Ocllo, an important deity in the ancient beliefs of Inca people.

Today we write about Mama Cocha, known as ‘Sea Mother’, Mother of the Waters’ (‘Laguna Madre’), whose powers were derived from the water.

In the Inca beliefs, Mama Cocha is one of the four elemental, divine mothers; the others are  Mama Nina, the goddess of fire,  Pachamama, the goddess of the earth and fertility, who presides over planting and harvesting and can cause earthquakes. The latter is Mama Waira, who teaches the Inca the art of spinning. These four deities were worshiped as mothers of life because they ruled everything that was considered natural elements such as land, fire, air, and water.

All rivers, lakes, mountains, animals, plants, and meteorological phenomena possess such a spirit, according to the Inca. The word ‘mama’ added to the name of any animal, is used to designate a gigantic prototype of the species or closely associated with them.

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