22/02/2026
Waiting for birth with Pachamama, Mother Earth, Mother of the Cosmos.
The term Pacha, in Aymara and Quechua, has a broad meaning that includes concepts such as "world, universe, space, time, totality, era."
Pachamama is the Andean deity representing space-time, revered by the peoples of the Andes. In Inca mythology and religion, she is a "mother goddess" type deity, representing the universal energy that connects everything.
She is normally a loving and generous goddess, but she can be terrible, cruel, and destructive when she is upset or feels hurt. Pachamama is an ancient and primordial goddess who does not need temples or specific places of worship, although she likes springs, simply because she is everywhere and at all times.
Pachamama, "Mother Earth" or "Mother Cosmos," is the whole. The whole in these traditions is more than the sum of its parts. What affects the parts affects the whole and vice versa. According to the Andean worldview, Pachamama is present in everything and everywhere (space/time). The holism of Pachamama is characteristic of a collectivist world, affected by a sense of belonging: one always knows that one is a member of a community to which one feels intimately committed. This community lives within us ("Ayllu").
Andean culture is associated with the stars; they made the constellations imaginary lines to represent the forces or energies that favor the fertility of everything in the biosphere. Fertility is a vital issue for the Andean people, as it extends to the flowering of crops, the arrival of spring, and the reproduction of animals. Pachamama plays the role of cosmic mother; from Pachamama's fertility, the cosmos is born, the earth is fertilized, and then it flourishes.
