# E — Inca Glossary

> From the Inca Glossary by Patt O'Neill (© 2007, 2008, 2014).
> Web page: https://incaglossary.com/e
> 35 terms. Each term heading links to that term's own Markdown file.

## [east, the](https://incaglossary.com/e/east.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
One of the four cardinal directions representing the four winds. (*See*, [level of abstraction](https://incaglossary.com/l/levelofabstraction.md), def. 2.)
The east is a “positive” or “safe” direction because the sun rises in
the east, giving birth to light and a new day. [WOFW] (*See*, also, [west](https://incaglossary.com/w/west.md), [north](https://incaglossary.com/n/north.md), [south](https://incaglossary.com/s/south.md).)

## [echo stone](https://incaglossary.com/e/echo-stone.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
A small replica of one of the [apus](https://incaglossary.com/a/apu.md). [PKC]

## [ecstasy](https://incaglossary.com/e/ecstasy.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
An emotional or religious frenzy or trancelike state, originally one
involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence. [WODO] During
this state there occurs the passage from consciousness by means of the
unconscious toward a far superior state. Ecstasy occurs in a very
tenuous, simple fashion and almost instantaneously. Ecstasy serves to
predispose the spirit for [flight](https://incaglossary.com/j/journey.md). The
conscious field becomes more alive. The ecstasy prepares one for
flight. One passes through ecstasy before the flight. [WOFW]

## [ecstatic flight](https://incaglossary.com/e/ecstatic-flight.md)

Languages: Eng

(n) Another term for the shamanic [journey](https://incaglossary.com/j/journey.md) (*see*).

## [ehupi](https://incaglossary.com/e/ehupi.md)

Languages: AYM

(n) Honor. [ASD]

## [Ekkeko, Ekeko](https://incaglossary.com/e/ekkeko.md)

(1) A god of wealth. [EFD]
A Bolivian god of plenty and wealth. According to an ancient legend,
when you place a miniature object in or on a doll representing the god,
you will receive what you wish for the following year. It is considered
bad luck to remove those objects from the doll. [WPO]
(2) (lower case, ekkeko) An elemental of the mountain; a benefactor who
provides the fruits of [Pachamama](https://incaglossary.com/p/pachamama.md). [JLH]

- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/ekkeko.jpg

## [El Brujo](https://incaglossary.com/e/elbrujo.md)

(n) An
archaeological site located north of Trujillo, Peru. At the El Brujo
archaeological site are three [huacas](https://incaglossary.com/h/huaca.md): Huaca Cao
Viejo, Huaca El Brujo, and Huaca Prieta. These structures were built by
the Moche people, who lived there between the years A.D. 100 and 700.
The people who now live near the El Brujo site tell us that the Huaca
Cao Viejo (or White Huaca) is a temple with positive energy, which is
represented by a man, the earth or the sun. The Huaca Partida is a
temple with negative energy, which is represented by a woman, the sea
or the moon. At Huaca Partida, [shamans](https://incaglossary.com/s/shaman.md)
perform ritual [mesas](https://incaglossary.com/m/mesa.md) (def. 2). Excavations
at the El Brujo complex have revealed evidence of human sacrifice, most
probably made to [Aia-Paec](https://incaglossary.com/a/aiapaec.md). [WRIC]

- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/elbrujo1.jpg — Artist's rendering of an important ceremonial precinct within Huaca Cao Viejo. It was most likely used for religious rituals. Its two walls are decorated with small high-relief iconographic designs (image below).
- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/elbrujo2.jpg — Mural representation of the warrior narrative (depicted in the artist's rendering above, far right, center.
- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/elbrujo3.jpg — A spiral well discovered at El Brujo. [WIKI]

## [El Dorado](https://incaglossary.com/e/el-dorado.md)

Languages: Span

(n) Literally, *the
gilded man*. The
fabled city of gold. The term originally referred to the Chibcha
ceremony in which a chief coated with a vegetable gum and sprayed with
gold dust jumped into a lagoon from a raft in order to offer the gold
on his body to the gods. The theme of this ritual act seems to have
been a symbolic shedding of the skin or metamorphosis. [WOFW]

## [empacho](https://incaglossary.com/e/empacho.md)

Languages: Span

Literally, *embarrassment*.
Illness related with disharmony of the solar plexus energy. [WAN]

## [encantado](https://incaglossary.com/e/encantado.md)

Languages: Span

(adj) Bewitched, enchanted. [SEES] *See*, [encantos](https://incaglossary.com/e/encanto.md), below.

## [encantero](https://incaglossary.com/e/encantero.md)

Languages: Span

(n)
A
 [curandero](https://incaglossary.com/c/curandero.md)
specialized in working with the [encantos](https://incaglossary.com/e/encanto.md)*.*
[EMM]

## [encanto](https://incaglossary.com/e/encanto.md)

Languages: Span

(n) Literally, *enchantment,
charm*.
A special stone with healing properties. Encantos can have different
colours -- black, white, aqua, red, emerald -- with each colour
corresponding to a specific use in curing an illness. [EMM]
The stones can be of a peculiar shape, resembling, *e.g.*,
a snake or [jaguar](https://incaglossary.com/j/jaguar.md)
claw. The spirit of the stone protects and gives special dreams to the
owner of the stone. [Vegetalistas](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetalista.md)
claim that the true nature of these stones is seen under the effects of
 [ayahuasca](https://incaglossary.com/a/ayahuasca.md),
when one is able to see the powerful spirits that live inside them.
They are used for healing -- for instance, by rubbing the patient with
an encanto in the place where illness is located -- or as a defense by
invoking the spirits. [AYV]
A
great power source for a [curandero](https://incaglossary.com/c/curandero.md), such as a
sacred mountain. [WOFW] Spirit
entities. Duality and separability of spirit-essence and physical
manifestations permeates the natural world as well [as the human
being's ability to separate spirit from body]. The spiritual essence of
caves, springs, mountains and highland lagoons is understood in two
ways. First, it may be an inherent feature of the particular place.
Second, it may be the accumulated spiritual essence of humans who lived
and died at that place -- on the mountain, in the cave, or at the
lakeshore -- in previous eras. Both definitions of this spiritual
essence are referred to generically as the encanto of the place. [GOL] (*See*,
 [rumi](https://incaglossary.com/r/rumi.md), [khuya](https://incaglossary.com/k-prime/khuya.md).)

- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/paint612.jpg

## [enema](https://incaglossary.com/e/enema.md)

Languages: Eng

*See*. [willcachina](https://incaglossary.com/w/willcachina.md).

## [energy](https://incaglossary.com/e/energy.md)

Languages: Eng

*See*, [subtle energy](https://incaglossary.com/s/subtleenergy.md).

## [energy center](https://incaglossary.com/e/energycenter.md)

(Eng) A reference to [yachay](https://incaglossary.com/y/yachay.md), [munay](https://incaglossary.com/m/munay.md)
or [llank'ay](https://incaglossary.com/ll/llankay.md),
also encompassing the [chakras](https://incaglossary.com/c/chakra.md)
of the Hindu system of life energy.

## [enferme Dios](https://incaglossary.com/e/enferme-dios.md)

(n) A
God-given illness that is a catalyst for regaining a connection to
Spirit or to reveal a specific teaching otherwise impossible to learn
without the condition. It is the [shaman](https://incaglossary.com/s/shaman.md)'s
responsibility to carefully discern the intention of Spirit and to
mediate change accordingly. [PSPM]

## [enguyanchero](https://incaglossary.com/e/enguyanchero.md)

(n) A
maker of love spells. [WOFW]

## [enqa, inca, enqha](https://incaglossary.com/e/enqa.md)

(n) The vital generating principle. It is the fount and
origin of happiness, well-being, and abundance. Enqa is a special gift
which permits good fortune to accompany the family, preserving the
herds which support it. [WOFW] A black
hole, or one who can absorb all the living energies. [RS]
[QNO] Inca
[enqa] is the original model of all things; probably this is the
fundamental meaning: archetype. [CSCR] Talisman,
a magical character, a sacred item used as the container of health,
abundance, and safety. [PSPM] Talisman
or medicine object used as a container for health, well-being, and
abundance; most likely the origin of the word [Inka](https://incaglossary.com/i/inca.md), enqa
refers to a repository of collective energy, a black hole, or a person
who can absorb all forms of energy. [ANON1]Life force
contained in an [enqaychu](https://incaglossary.com/e/enqaychu.md).
 [ROR]
Origin of *Inca*; health, balance, well-being.  [JLH]
*See*, [conopa](https://incaglossary.com/c/conopa.md)

## [enqaychu, incayichu, incaychu](https://incaglossary.com/e/enqaychu.md)

(n) (1) The graphic manifestation of *enqa* (*see*, above). [WOFW]. A small
stone, natural or carved, that resembles an animal, human or object,
considered to contain life force and the power to bring good things to
one's life. Also called an [illa](https://incaglossary.com/i/illa.md).
 [ROR] (2) In the [Cusco](https://incaglossary.com/c/cusco.md) area, the
term used for [conopa](https://incaglossary.com/c/conopa.md). The
enqaychu is said to contain the animo or life-force of the
livestock. [WOFW] (3)
The principle of abundance and fertility.[UNK]

## [enredo](https://incaglossary.com/e/enredo.md)

Languages: Span

(n) An entanglement of the spirit caused by [witchcraft](https://incaglossary.com/witch) (a love
spell). From *enredar*, to
entangle in a net. [WOFW]
[SEES] [WPH] The
artificial manipulation of human sentiment is a type of sorcery that
illustrates the relationship among the etiology of illness, the
constraining ideologies of [machismo](https://incaglossary.com/m/machismo.md) and [marianismo](https://incaglossary.com/m/marianismo.md), and the
precarious nature of relations of dependence. Love magic has been used
as a sorcery technique since at least the early colonial period. This
form of [daño](https://incaglossary.com/d/dano.md) is
directed toward a specific victim because of envy, jealousy, or
revenge. Intended to manipulate or dominate another's will, love magic
is known by many terms, including [pisada](https://incaglossary.com/p/pisada.md) and [atada](https://incaglossary.com/a/atada.md). Like
other forms of daño, the effects of love magic occur because the
victims soul has been called away from the body and commended to
another. Instead of commending the soul to an *encanto* (*see*, above) or an [ánima](https://incaglossary.com/a/anima.md), the soul
is turned over to the perpetrator so the victim will feel irresistibly
drawn toward him or her. This unnatural binding of two souls occurs
when the victim absorbs the prepared potion or powder, either directly
(by ingestion) or indirection (through airborne means). Drinking
menstrual blood that has been surreptitiously mixed in hot chocolate,
or donning underpants that have been [worked](https://incaglossary.com/t/trabajaco.md)
with the hex are two common examples. Or sympathetic magic may be
employed, as when the intended's photograph is placed in the
perpetrator's shoe and the [pisada](https://incaglossary.com/p/pisada.md) occurs
with every footstep taken. [GOL]

## [enterrado](https://incaglossary.com/e/enterrado.md)

Languages: Span

(adj) Literally, *buried*. Referring
to something that was magically [worked](https://incaglossary.com/t/trabajaco.md)
by a [brujo](https://incaglossary.com/b/brujo.md) to effect
the [daño](https://incaglossary.com/d/dano.md) and then
buried or thrown into the sea. [GOL]

## [entheogenic](https://incaglossary.com/e/entheogenic.md)

Languages: Greek

(n) The word entheogen is a modern term derived from two
Ancient Greek words, *entheos*
and *genesthai*.
Entheos means literally *in
God*,
more freely translated *inspired*.
Genesthai means *to
cause to be*.
So an entheogen is *that
which causes (a person) to be in God*.
In its strictest sense the term refers to a psychoactive substance
(most often some plant matter) that occasions enlightening spiritual or
mystical experience. In a broader sense, the word refers to artificial
as well as natural substances that induce alterations of consciousness
similar to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional
shamanic inebriants, even if it is used in a secular context. [EWO]

## [entrega](https://incaglossary.com/e/entrega.md)

Languages: Span

(n) From *entregar*, to
deliver, hand over. [SEES] A
surrender; a giving over. Relinquishment of control. [GOL]

## [entropy](https://incaglossary.com/e/entropy.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
In thermodynamics, a measure of the amount of energy not available for
work during a natural process. [RHCD]

## [Epunamun](https://incaglossary.com/e/epunamun.md)

(n) [Inca](https://incaglossary.com/i/inca.md)
god of mercenary war. [DRB]

## [espiritisto / espiritista](https://incaglossary.com/e/espiritisto-espiritista.md)

Languages: Span

(n) (1) A spiritist, male or female, who works with the spirits of her
ancestors to help diagnose and cure sorcery-related illnesses. [GOL] (2)
Espiritista: [vegetalista](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetalista.md) who works
solely with spirits. [Note use of fem. endings.] [MSIN]

## [espiritu](https://incaglossary.com/e/espiritu.md)

Languages: Span

(n) Spirit, ghost. [PSL]

## [espiritu pacha](https://incaglossary.com/e/espiritu-pacha.md)

(n) Spirit world (sp.). [PSL]

## [Espiritu Pampa](https://incaglossary.com/e/espiritupampa.md)

(n) The
*plain of the spirits*,
located some 170 km northwest of [Cusco](https://incaglossary.com/c/cusco.md),
was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, just a few weeks after his
discovery of [Machu Picchu](https://incaglossary.com/m/machupicchu.md).
This is considered to be [Vilcabamba](https://incaglossary.com/v/vilcabamba.md),
the lost city of the [Inca](https://incaglossary.com/i/inca.md)
(sp). [HDP]

- Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/E_files/paint622.jpg

## [estimular el canto](https://incaglossary.com/e/estimular-el-canto.md)

Languages: Span

Literally, *to
stimulate the singing*.
 [Ayahuasca](https://incaglossary.com/a/ayahuasca.md)
sessions are noted for visual and auditory (even olfactory)
hallucinations of spirits dancing and singing and playing instruments.
Guardian spirits bring [icaros](https://incaglossary.com/i/icaro.md)
to the [vegetalista](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetalista.md).
 [AYV]

## [estrella](https://incaglossary.com/e/estrella.md)

(n) (Span) The *star*
or spirit of an [apu](https://incaglossary.com/a/apu.md).
The summoning of the [paq'o](https://incaglossary.com/p/paqo.md)
by a physical manifestation of the estrella. May take the form of
bulls, condors, hummingbirds or pumas, or come in a dream as a glowing
human figure in a white robe. Sacred lagoons may also send estrellas. [KOAK]

## [ewanqelio](https://incaglossary.com/e/ewanqelio.md)

*See*,
 [iwanqiliu](https://incaglossary.com/i/iwanqiliu.md).

## [evil air](https://incaglossary.com/e/evil-air.md)

*See*, [mal aire](https://incaglossary.com/m/malaire.md).

## [Extirpation of Idolotry](https://incaglossary.com/e/extirpationofidolotry.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
The title given to the colonial religious office in the archbishopric
of Lima, established in 1610, charged with the eradication the Andean
religions. [IBCN] Jesuit
missionaries were impressed upon that their very first duty, upon
entering a village, was to get their hands on the lineage [huaca](https://incaglossary.com/h/huaca.md) and
destroy it. If the [paqarina](https://incaglossary.com/p/paqarina.md) could be
located and destroyed or defaced, so much the better. [SIMA]

## [extraction](https://incaglossary.com/e/extraction.md)

Languages: Eng

(n)
The process by which a [shaman](https://incaglossary.com/s/shaman.md) removes
blockages, objects imprinted in the energy field, or even heavy energy
by sucking, brushing or sweeping, using a sacred object or the hands.
That which is extracted must be disposed of properly by putting it in
the ground or in running water. It can also be disposed of with [hucha mikhuy](https://incaglossary.com/h/huchamikhuy.md).
[PGO]
[PSPM] *See*, also, [sucking](https://incaglossary.com/s/sucking.md).

## Sources

- **ANON1**: anonymous donor 1. Click * for explanation.
- **ASD**: *Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara*
- **AYV**: *Ayahuasca Visions,* Luna
- **CSCR**: *Cut Stones and Crossroads*, Wright
- **DRB**: www.daemonraven.bravehost.com/inca.html
- **EFD**: encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
- **EMM**: www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/
- **EWO**: en.wikipedia.org
- **GOL**: *The Gift of Life*, Glass-Coffin.
- **HDP**: www.hc09.dial.pipex.com
- **IBCN**: *Spiritual Encounters*, Griffiths
- **JLH**: Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures
- **KOAK**: *Keepers of the Ancient knowledge*, Wilcox
- **MSIN**: conference paper *The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú*, Luna
- **PGO**: Patt Grantham O’Neill, personal definitions I write when I cannot find a good one elsewhere.
- **PKC**: www.poqenkanchay.com
- **PSL**: www.geocities.com/phillott/Bolivia/Dictionary02.htm  Bolivian Quechua
- **PSPM**: *Pachakuti Mesa*, Magee
- **QNO**: www.quechuanetwork.org
- **RHCD**: *Random House College Dictionary*
- **ROR**: *Rituals of Respect*, Bolin
- **RS**: runasimi.de
- **SEES**: Crowell's Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary
- **SIMA**: *The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time, *Sullivan
- **UNK**: The original author's marker for an unknown / unattributed source.
- **WAN**: www.amaruli.net
- **WIKI**: en.wikipedia.org (no www)
- **WODO**: www.websters-online-dictionary.org
- **WOFW**: Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.
- **WPH**: Eduardo el Curandero, Calderón
- **WPO**: www.pantheon.org
- **WRIC**: www.research.ibm.com/peru/brujo.htm