Editing Supay (section)

==Modern Andean-Christian belief==
The name Supay is now roughly translated into ''diablo'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for devil) in most Southern American countries.

Some commentary regards the Supay as a single God of Death of the Uku Pacha (inner world),<ref name="adames&chavez-dueñas2016"/><!-- Adame's "God of Death" or material on Supay could not be verified in the non-previewable Jones, David M. (2912) ''The Complete Illustrated History of the Inca Empire"; Davies, Nigel (1995) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OnYaAAAAYAAJ&q=dead The Incas]'' or Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, María (1999) [https://books.google.com/books?id=PfO9_ohMYQQC History of the Inca Realm] which are cited by Adames--> the "god of the mountains",<ref name="crump2021"/> or "the spirit or god who lived in the earth".{{sfnp|LeCount|1995|p=50}}

What appears to be the case is there is conflation between the Supay, regarded as a [[trickster]] deity, and  [[El Tío]] (q.v.), the Bolivian god of the underworld and the mines.<ref name="lane2021"/> While scholarly argument postulates Tío to have been a sort of Spanish invented frightening god/boogeyman and thus a corruption of {{lang|es|Dios}},<ref name="estermann2014"/> the popular notion is that the miners avoid the derogatory ''supay'' and call him Tío, or "uncle".{{Refn|Urban and Sherzer 1991 ''apud'' Bonilla<ref name="bonilla2006"/>}} The name is sometimes concatenated as "Tío Supay" or "Uncle Supay".{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Some miners who claimed to have seen him said he was a small man who smelled of sulfur, and accused him of pranks like hiding the miner's coca or his essentially tools.{{sfnp|Claure Covarrubias|Monotoya|2005|p=73}}}}{{sfnp|Claure Covarrubias|Monotoya|2005|p=73}}

It has been commented that in the early 20th century, the Aymara were more prone to worship the Supay akin to old tradition, and the Quechua more likely to regard it as a disgusting creature.<ref name="urteaga1911"/>

In some areas of Peru, where the cult of the [[Virgin of Candelaria]] is celebrated, she became controller of lightning who frightens away the devilish Supay (early 20th century).<ref name="urteaga1911"/> This Catholic Virgin Mother is the [[Pachamama]]'s counterpart, just as the Devil is the replacement for Supay.<ref name="crump2021"/>