Literally “spirit mother of the water”, in Quechua, it is a huge anaconda thought to live at the bottom of lakes and rivers. It’s the counterpart – in water – of what the Sachamama is on earth.
Thus Luna: ”This is a vision of the supay-chacra or garden of the Chullachaki” (in Luna, L.E. – Amaringo, P.: Ayahuasca Visions – The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Berkeley 1999, p. 78).
