Pachamama, literally "Mother Earth", is the goddess of fertility in Inca civilisation, probably inherited from earlier civilisations such as Chavin and Tihuanaco. By fusion with some god of the Inca cosmogony and as a concept of Mother-Goddess she contains all the opposites, among them the masculine and feminine.
Her cult, contaminated with that of the Virgin Mary of the colonisers, has survived in the territory of the Andean mountain range belonging to Peru, Bolivia and northwest Argentina.
Gift from Maria Teresa Ruiz Royo, Professor of Nursing at the University of Alicante and expert trainer in Breastfeeding, purchased in Salta.