Mama Ocllo

Legendary sister-wife of Manco Cápac and founding empress of the Inca house. Inca dynastic ideology required the Sapa Inca to marry his full sister, preserving the divine bloodline of the children of the sun. Mama Ocllo is credited in the foundation legends with teaching Andean women weaving and spinning, the female complement to Manco Cápac's instruction of agriculture to the men.