Andean earth-goddess Pachamama is the source of all life and fertility

Evidence

To the peoples of the Andes, the earth itself is a living, sacred, motherly being: Pachamama, “Mother Earth” (or “Mother World/Time” — for pacha means both the earth and the world and time itself). Pachamama is the great mother who brings forth all life — the crops, the plants, the animals, and the people themselves. She is the source of all fertility and abundance, the one who feeds her children. And she is honored, loved, and thanked above almost all other powers, for she is the living earth on whom all life depends. — , A Year of World Stories, 10685

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the concept of Pachamama, including the dual sense of pacha as earth, world, and time.
• XREF: Connects to my reading on Gaia concepts and animist worldviews versus treating land as inert resources.