The Diablada Puneña is inspired in the Lupakas people when they presented their version of the Autos Sacramentales taught by the Spanish Jesuit priests in 1576 in the city of Juli [es] in present-day Peru.[1] Nevertheless, the dance holds Native American roots from the cult of Anchanchu, a pre-Hispanic Aymara deity,[2] and the narrative of the Myth of the Supaya.[3] The dance's association with the cult of the Virgin of Candelaria stems from a popular legend that tells that in 1675, in the mine of Laikakota (located near Puno), a Spaniard by the name of José Salcedo changed his decision to destroy the miner's houses because he saw a fire coming out of the mine as a result of the Virgin Mary fighting the Devil inside the mine.