Inca Achala

Price:R450

Crafted from Zinc Alloy (allegen-free) with enameling, presented with a chain in a satin pouch.

Cloaked by the mists of the Andean peaks there remains a multitude of alluring Secrets and Myths of the Ancient Inca people. The spoken word has handed down their legends, much of which are still waiting to be revealed. Their archaic designs are carefully reproduced and enriched to create a mystical selection of pendants that give an insight into the Inca’s hidden wonders…

IA01 Mamaconas
IA01 Mamaconas

For Purity of Spirit.
Mamaconas were similar to nuns and lived in temple sanctuaries and served the Inca and priests. Young girls of the nobility spent 4 years as Acllas then either married into nobility or chosen as spouses of the Sun God.


IA04 Tawantin Chakana
IA04 Tawantin Chakana

For Balance.
Revered to represent Mother Earth and symbolises the three levels of consciousness; Uqhu Pacha (Underworld), Kay Pacha (Human Realm) and Hanan Pacha (Upper World). In Quechuan, the term Tawantin represents the four lands together as the Empire was fourfold.


IA07 Inti Quri
IA07 Inti Quri

For Golden Energy.
In South American mythology, Tonatiuh was the sun deity, considered the leader of Tollan. According to cosmology, each Sun was a God with its own Cosmic Era and without human sacrifice it would refuse to move through the sky.

IA02 Inti Dyus
IA02 Inti Dyus

For Wealth of Spirit.
The symbol of the Sun God, Inti, and the Inca most revered Giver of Life. The Incas believed that all their Emperors were descendants of Inti, making a unique entwinement between the ruling Gods and the people’s rulers.


IA05 Abi Dyus
IA05 Abi Dyus

For Personal Transformation.
Winged creatures are prominent in indigenous Cosmology as they were thought to possess power as they flew the divisions between the levels. Many Meso-American Gods would transform into their animal selves at will so any bird could be a Deity in disguise.


IA08 Miraywa Condor
IA08 Miraywa Condor

For a Fertile Mind.
The Condor was revered for carrying the Spirits from the Underworld to the Upper World. A divine bird that was also worshipped for bringing fertility to the land as its enormous wings gathered clouds to fall as rain.

IA03 Juivis Pelican
IA03 Juivis Pelican

To receive Kindness from the World.
The Pelican feeding its young has been associated with the Eucharist since the Middle Ages and is symbolic of Holy Thursday. Pelicans are a guano-producing species and are an integral part of human livelihood.


IA06 Sami Tumi
IA06 Sami Tumi

Good Luck & Strength of Purpose.
To hang a Tumi on a wall means ‘Good Luck’ and has become the national symbol of the country. With bird shaped eyes and stretched lobes to show nobility, the hero Naylamp is represented in this ceremonial axe design.