# V — Inca Glossary > From the Inca Glossary by Patt O'Neill (© 2007, 2008, 2014). > Web page: https://incaglossary.com/v > 26 terms. Each term heading links to that term's own Markdown file. ## [varayoq](https://incaglossary.com/v/varayoq.md) *See*, [warayoq](https://incaglossary.com/w/warayoq.md). ## [vegetal](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetal.md) Languages: Span (n) Another name for [ayahuasca](https://incaglossary.com/a/ayahuasca.md). [AYV] ## [vegetales que enseñan](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetales-que-ensenan.md) Languages: Span (n) Plants that teach. *See*, [plant teachers](https://incaglossary.com/p/plantteachers.md). [MSIN] ## [vegetalista](https://incaglossary.com/v/vegetalista.md) Languages: Span (n) Indigenous healer who employs plants. By far, in the Peruvian Amazon, most are [ayahuasceros](https://incaglossary.com/a/ayahuascero.md). You can only become a good vegetalista by keeping a [diet](https://incaglossary.com/d/diet.md) or fasting for years, then you become one that knows the science of the [muraya](https://incaglossary.com/m/muraya.md), of the [sumiruna](https://incaglossary.com/s/sumiruna.md), and of the [banco](https://incaglossary.com/b/banco.md), which are the three highest levels in the traditional vegetalista medicine in the Amazon. These differentiated levels are not consistent throughout the Amazon, and are in places used interchangeably. [AYV] ## [vicuña](https://incaglossary.com/v/vicuna.md) (n) (*Vicugna vicugna*) is one of two wild South American [camelids](https://incaglossary.com/c/camelid.md), along with the [guanaco](https://incaglossary.com/fg/guanaco.md), which live in the [altiplano](https://incaglossary.com/a/altiplano.md). It is a relative of the [llama](https://incaglossary.com/ll/llama.md) and the [alpaca](https://incaglossary.com/a/alpaca.md). Vicuñas produce small amounts of extremely fine wool, which is very expensive because the animal can only be shorn every three years. When knitted together, the product of the vicuña's fur is very soft and warm. It is understood that the [Inca](https://incaglossary.com/i/inca.md) raised vicuñas for their wool, and that it was against the law for any but royalty to wear vicuña garments. Both under the rule of the Inca and today, vicuñas have been protected by law. Before being declared endangered in 1974, only about 6,000 animals were left. Today, the vicuña have recovered to about 125,000 individuals and are still considered endangered. [WIKI] - Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/V_files/vicuna.jpg — Vicuña. [WIKI] ## [Vichama](https://incaglossary.com/v/vichama.md) *See*, [Wichama](https://incaglossary.com/w/wichama.md). ## [vilca, villca](https://incaglossary.com/v/vilca.md) *See*, [willka](https://incaglossary.com/w/wilka.md). [ROR] ## [Vilcabamba](https://incaglossary.com/v/vilcabamba.md) (n) [Since there is no “V” or “B”  in Quechua (entering the language from Spanish) it would be in the original Quechua *Willkapampa*, literally meaning *sacred ground* or *sacred valley*.] The last stronghold of the [Inca](https://incaglossary.com/i/inca.md) and a spiritual center. The [shamans](https://incaglossary.com/s/shaman.md) of Vilcabamba are very pure in their medicine. [JLH] Last stronghold under [Manco Capac](https://incaglossary.com/m/manco-capac.md) after his rebellion against the Spanish. (*See*, [Appendix H](https://incaglossary.com/appendix/h), [willka](https://incaglossary.com/w/wilka.md), and [Espiritu Pampa](https://incaglossary.com/e/espiritupampa.md).) - Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/V_files/paint202.jpg ## [Vilcanota River](https://incaglossary.com/v/vilcanotariver.md) *See*, [Willkamayu](https://incaglossary.com/w/willkamayu.md). ## [vinagre bully](https://incaglossary.com/v/vinagre-bully.md) Languages: Span (n) Medicinal vinegar, sprayed to counteract the power of a visiting [shadow](https://incaglossary.com/s/shadow.md). Like rubbing alcohol, it is used to [despachar](https://incaglossary.com/d/despachar.md) after a ritual cleansing ([limpia](https://incaglossary.com/l/limpia.md)). [GOL] ## [Viracocha](https://incaglossary.com/v/viracocha.md) *See*, [Wiracocha](https://incaglossary.com/w/wiracocha.md). ## [virapirico](https://incaglossary.com/v/virapirico.md) *See*, [wirapirico](https://incaglossary.com/w/wirapiricuq.md). ## [virola](https://incaglossary.com/v/virola.md) Languages: Amaz (n) A type of [entheogenic](https://incaglossary.com/e/entheogenic.md) snuff. [AYV] ## [virote](https://incaglossary.com/v/virote.md) (n) A magical dart often thrown by a [sorcerer](https://incaglossary.com/s/sorcerer.md) with the intention of causing illness or death. Such malevolent darts are made from the thorns of various plants and trees, the beak of certain birds, the fangs of snakes, or the hair of the [casha-cushillo](https://incaglossary.com/c/cashacushillo.md). [AYV] The magic construction of virote with the impeccability of the healer transfers an amount of sober and compassionate energy (dart) into the patient, sticking it on top of a negative [imprint](https://incaglossary.com/i/imprint.md). [SPP] A sharp object that can be made from either thorns like the ones of the [huiririma](https://incaglossary.com/h/huiririma.md) (*Astrocaryum jauari*), the [huicungo](https://incaglossary.com/h/huicungo.md) (Astrocarium vulgare), and the [supay](https://incaglossary.com/s/supay.md)-casha caspi (unidentified); animal bones or teeth (for instance, a piranha tooth), usually employed by [brujos](https://incaglossary.com/b/brujo.md) to cause harm or to kill. Virotes can be active or passive depending on whether they are meant for offense or defense, respectively. [EMM] They are phlegms that penetrate the body of the victims. [MSIN] See, [mariri](https://incaglossary.com/m/mariri.md), [yachay](https://incaglossary.com/y/yachay.md) (def.2), [chonta](https://incaglossary.com/ch/chonta.md). ## [virtud](https://incaglossary.com/v/virtud.md) Languages: Span (n) Virtue; spirit-power. [GOL] ## [viscacha](https://incaglossary.com/v/viscacha.md) , vizcacha: (n) Rodents of two genera (*Lagidium* and *Lagostomus*) in the family *Chinchillidae*. They are closely related to chinchillas and look similar to rabbits, apart from their longer tails. They are found in the Andes, the pampas of Argentina, the Peruvian Andes and in the Atacama desert of Chile. [WIKI] They sit like monks muttering incantations to the sun. [WNET] - Image: https://incaglossary.com/images/V_files/vizcacha.jpg — A viscacha. ## [vision](https://incaglossary.com/v/vision.md) Languages: Eng (n) It is the opening of the sixth sense, or the power to visualize things [during [journey](https://incaglossary.com/j/journey.md) or a [shamanic](https://incaglossary.com/s/shaman.md) session].  The shaman sees real life as if it were a scene on television as well as symbols or lights. It is the unfoldment of oneself across time, distance, and matter, not sight as we commonly refer to it. You do not see with the eyes but you see cerebrally, you see internally. All of the five senses manifest themselves internally -- not in a physical fashion, but within: smell, vision, all of them. Your spirit, your double, your personality has unfolded and you are elsewhere. Your being is not seeing from here. The eyes at that moment are turned off. [WOFW] (*See*, [Appendix I](https://incaglossary.com/appendix/i), [seeing](https://incaglossary.com/s/seeing.md), and [vision](https://incaglossary.com/v/vision.md)..) ## [vista](https://incaglossary.com/v/vista.md) Languages: Span (n) Sight; vision. Ability to see into the spirit world and to perceive objects and events that exist beyond sensory reality. [GOL] (*See*, [Appendix I](https://incaglossary.com/appendix/i), [seeing](https://incaglossary.com/s/seeing.md), and [vision](https://incaglossary.com/v/vision.md).) ## [vista en virtud](https://incaglossary.com/v/vista-en-virtud.md) Languages: Span (n) The visual manifestation of an [encanto](https://incaglossary.com/e/encanto.md). [GOL] ## [vllitatatha](https://incaglossary.com/v/vllitatatha.md) Languages: AYM (v) Open the eyes. [ASD] ## [vma](https://incaglossary.com/v/vma.md) Languages: AYM (n) Water. [ASD] ## [vraque](https://incaglossary.com/v/vraque.md) Languages: AYM (n) Ground or Earth. [ASD] ## [vruquipatha](https://incaglossary.com/v/vruquipatha.md) Languages: AYM (v) To enter the day before the rising of the Sun. [ASD] ## [vrutati pacha](https://incaglossary.com/v/vrutati-pacha.md) Languages: AYM (n) Time of great ice. [ASD] ## [vrutta](https://incaglossary.com/v/vrutta.md) Languages: AYM (n) Full Moon. [ASD] ## [vtucani layca](https://incaglossary.com/v/vtucanilayca.md) , vtcani layca (AYM): (n) A professional [sorcerer](https://incaglossary.com/s/sorcerer.md), professor in the art. [VLA] In a contemporary context, the word carries a malevolent connotation. [FPRA] ## Sources - **ASD**: *Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara* - **AYV**: *Ayahuasca Visions,* Luna - **EMM**: www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/ - **FPRA**: Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes, Krögel - **GOL**: *The Gift of Life*, Glass-Coffin. - **JLH**: Jose Luis Herrera, various lectures - **MSIN**: conference paper *The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú*, Luna - **ROR**: *Rituals of Respect*, Bolin - **SPP**: www.spiritpathperu.com/west/plants/ayahuaska.html - **VLA**: Vocabulario de la Langua Aymara, Bertonio - **WIKI**: en.wikipedia.org (no www) - **WNET**: PBS documentary *Andes: The Dragon's Back* - **WOFW**: Source not listed on the original Text Sources page.