The Devourer

According to Laban Shrewsbury, the Devourer was the war-god of the Quichua-Ayars (Incas). Shrewsbury saw parallels between the Devourer and Cthulhu. He noted that the Chavin Stone shows appendages like serpents issuing from various parts of the Devourer's body. [AWD Curwen]

The "Chavin Stone" is evidently a reference to the Lanzón Stele, which represents Huari, "the main god of Chavín culture. To them, Huari was the god of water and was also associated with the rain, lightning, agriculture and war. Huari can turn into a puma or the proper lightning." [Inca Mythology, Wikipedia] Thus, it appears that Shrewsbury regarded "Devourer" as an epithet for Huari.

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