 With the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Christian priests used the name "Supay" to refer to the Christian Devil.However, unlike Europeans in relation to the Christian Devil, "the indigenous people did not repudiate Supay but, being scared of him, they invoked him and begged him not to harm them".Supay acquired a syncretic symbolism, becoming a main character of the "diabladas" of Bolivia (seen in the Carnaval de Oruro), Peru and other Andean countries.