Inca Mythology
- Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon, the menstrual cycle, and a protector of women
- Mama Ocllo, mother goddess, associated with fertility
- Sara Mama, goddess of grain
- Pacha Kamaq, Creator of the World
- Pachamama, fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting and causes earthquakes
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“Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
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