Geography/Culture: South American: Peru.
Description: Goddess of sweet-corn and its harvest; Overseer of its mutations and domestication.
To whom are sacred: mutant corn-cobs (in which She is incarnate); especially large corn-cobs (in which She is immanent); corn-stalks; bins made of corn-stalks (in which after each harvest the largest and mutant cobs are placed till the following harvest - rites and sacrifices were made in their honour); willow-trees; festive dances (held round the willows on which corn-stalks were hung; after the dance the corn-stalks were burned, to aid a good harvest).
Titles, Variants, etc.
Sources: Funk & Wagnall SDFML 972; Monaghna BGH 311.