Worship Illapa as our Patron God

Illapa was the Andean god of lightning, thunder, rain and war, among the highest-ranking gods of the Inca. According to Sarmiento de Gamboa, he gave Pachacuti a two-headed serpent idol as a protective talisman, and Pachacuti took him as his divine brother.

Temples to Illapa stood at Toqokachi in Cusco, where the church of San Blas was later built, and at Sacsayhuamán. As the empire grew, regional thunder gods such as Pariacaca and Apocatequil became local forms of him.