Zapam Zucum
Zapam Zucum or Zapam-zucún is a voluptuous, dark-skinned, and white-handed goddess among the Aymara and Diaguita populations of northerly parts of Argentina and Chile as well as Bolivia. She is considered the protectoress of the algarrobo tree.
Legend
Among the Aymara, whose population dwell in La [Rioja Province, Argentina|La Rioja Province] in the Argentine Northwest, Bolivia, and northern Chile, the algarrobo tree is held sacred. The algarrobo tree which can be made to into a sweet loaf called, or made into flour for baking, as well as being brewed into different kinds of beverages.According to the storytelling, while the women labor in the fields, the children are kept in the custody of the tree and nap in the tree's shades. If the goddess inhabits the tree, the sound of "Zapam... Zucum" can be heard, and the children stave their hunger for some reason. The babysitting goddess can materialize in the form of a dark-skinned, bare-naked beautiful lady, and will feed the children in need or those who start crying. She has long black hair and black eyes, but supple white hand of a skin-tone different from her general dark complexion. With those hands she will craft a cradle out of leaves and tuck in the toddlers to nap. Her breasts are enormous, and makes the aforesaid "Zapam... Zucum" sound when she maneuvers, hence her name.
The goddess is the guardian of the sacred algarrobo tree, and when she hears the "chac.. chac" noise of someone chopping at the tree with an ax, she will relentlessly abduct the logger to who knows where. In a variant telling, the logger's children get spirited away.
The goddess protects baby and juvenile animals from predatory beasts and hunters, and according to José Zanardi, metes out punishment particularly for killing the vicuña and stealing its children, Sometimes she will wreak vengeance upon evil and abusive men by seducing and suffocating them. In some regions, it is told how she will appear in gigantic form to hunt down lazy men who have loafed off of working in the fields, capture the men with her enormous breasts, and carry them off somewhere.
The lore of this dark-skinned, small, white-handed, and large-breasted goddess also occurs among the Diaguita.