Inti

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Quechua (Andes, South America)

Meaning

the Quechua name for the sun and the most important deity in the Inca religion — the Sun God Inti, father of the Sapa Inca and the divine ancestor of the royal Inca dynasty; the Inca state was built around the cult of Inti, whose chief temple Qorikancha (the Golden Enclosure) in Cusco was the religious and ceremonial centre of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca empire; the Sapa Inca — the emperor — was understood as the son of Inti and governed as his earthly representative; the festival of Inti Raymi, the feast of the sun held at the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, was the most important of the Inca solar festivals and has been revived in modern Cusco as a celebration of Andean cultural heritage; naming a son Inti connects him to the most powerful symbol in Andean cosmology and to the living tradition of Quechua cultural revival that has grown throughout the Andes since the late twentieth century

Gender

male