Hanan-pacha

Upper world / cosmos

Hanan-pacha — the upper world: the celestial realm of the sun (Inti), the moon (Mama Killa), the stars and the apus (mountain-spirits) that mediate between the human and the cosmic. It is the seat of the most refined and luminous (illa) order of being. In the body-projection it anchors at the upper chest and head — the breath-region and the crown — the body's own sky. Symbolically associated with the condor (kuntur) and with the qhana (bright) end of the dark-light continuum.

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Point 3 of 3 in Andean Chakana — Three Pacha (Worlds)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Betanzos, Suma y Narración de los Incas (primary_canonical)

Betanzos, Suma y Narración de los Incas, Part I, chs. 1–2, narrates Inca origins, creator agency, and the establishment of the imperial order under sacred sanction. It supplies colonial evidence for upper/celestial symbolism, while the head-and-chest placement is a modern comparative projection.

Wilcox, Masters of the Living Energy (secondary)

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