Urcuchillay

{{Short description|Incan llama god who watches over animals}}

Urcuchillay, sometimes spelled as Urcachillay,{{Cite web |editor-last=Freeman |editor-first=Benjamin |title=AP WORLD PEOPLE TO KNOW |url=https://www.freeman-pedia.com/ap-world-people-to-know |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Freemanpedia |date=13 July 2022 |language=en-US}} was a god worshiped by Incan herders, believed to be a multicolored male llama who watched over animals.{{cite book |last=D'Altroy |first=Terence N. |url=https://archive.org/details/incasthepeopleso00tere |title=The Incas |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-631-17677-0 |series=The Peoples of America |location=Oxford |page=[https://archive.org/details/incasthepeopleso00tere/page/149 149] |chapter-url= |url-access=registration}} It was said to be the incarnation of the constellation Lyra,{{Cite book |last=Prieto |first=Andres I. |title=Missionary Scientists: Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 |date=2011-03-28 |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |isbn=978-0-8265-1744-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=v5KZH3yrd7wC&pg=PA110 110] |language=en}} as Urcuchillay was the name given to both the constellation and the deity.{{Cite web |last=Dahle |first=H. |title=Orion raising over petroglyphs |url=https://www.eso.org/public/images/dsc_5994-cc/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=European Southern Observatory}}