Ancient Peru Religion
The ancient peruvians worshipped the sea as well as the earth the folk inland regarding it as a menacing deity whilst the people of the coast reverenced it as a god of benevolence calling it mama cocha or mother sea as it yielded them subsistence in the form of fish on which they chiefly lived.
Ancient peru religion. Inca religionan admixture of complex ceremonies practices animistic beliefs varied forms of belief in objects having magical powers and nature worshipculminated in the worship of the sun which was presided over by the priests of the last native pre columbian conquerors of the andean. Inca religion was one of the main concerns of the spanish conquerors since their arrival to the new world understanding it was vital to successfully convert the population into catholicism. It ran along the andes region in south america and there were millions of people who were incathey reigned from 1438 to 1533 until the spanish conquest lead by francisco pizzaro ended this reign.
Ancient inca the incas were a pre colombian civilization that was centrally located in peru. Indigenous peruvians however have blended catholicism and their traditional beliefs. An example is the near synonymous association of pacha mama mother earth and the virgin mary.
It is the most popular religion as 792 of an entire population in the country.