Quri is from the Quechua quri — gold (also spelled qori / qori). A modern American baby name in the broader Quechua-Andean Indigenous heritage aesthetic. Quri is one of the foundational Quechua feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Inca + Andean Indigenous heritage. The foundational Quechua quri is central to foundational Inca religious + economic + symbolic heritage — central to foundational Coricancha (Quechua Qurikancha — Golden Enclosure, foundational Inca Sun Temple at Cusco, foundational holiest temple of Inca religion + dedicated to the Sun God Inti + featured foundational golden walls + foundational solar disc — pillaged by Spanish 1533 conquest + replaced by foundational Santo Domingo Convent). Foundational subject of foundational Inca cosmology + the foundational Quri-Sara (golden maize) symbolism + foundational Quechua-language poetic + ceremonial heritage spanning Peru + Bolivia + Ecuador.
Featured throughout Andean heritage.
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Quri reduces to five.