A treasure and a superstition - Peruvian Traditions - Fourth Series
Locumba Cure, at the beginning of this century, was the venerable Dr. Galdo, who was called one day to confess to a dying man. This was an Indian-laden years, more than a hundred years old, and known by the name of Mariano Choquemamani.
After receiving the last rites, the priest said:
-Taita, I will confide a secret, since I have no son to whom to transmit. I am descended from Titu-Atauchi, chief of Moquegua in the days of Atahualpa. When the English seized the Inca he sent an emissary to Titu-Atauchi in order to gather together the gold to pay his ransom. The noble chieftain met lots of golden yew, and at times it was getting ready to lead this treasure at Cajamarca received the news of the execution of Atahualpa. Titu-Atauchi hid the gold in the cave that exists in the high Locumba, he lay down on the coveted metal and committed suicide. His grave is covered with fine sand to a certain height, above Palisade is a pacays and these large numbers of reed mats, stones, mud and gravel. Among the reeds will be a wicker basket and the skeleton of a parrot. This secret was passed me by my father, who had received it from my grandfather. I Taita cure, I am confident that if you were to destroy the church serves Locumba gold and spend it on building a new church. Running
years, Galdo communicated the secret to his successor.
On September 18, 1833 an earthquake shattered the church Locumba. The priest Cueto, who was the new priest, thought when the opportunity to extract the treasure, but had to fight with the resistance of the Indians, who saw such a heinous act of desecration. However, some neighbors asociáronse remarkable and attacked the company, achieving pacay discover clubs, reed mats and the parrot.
Faced with the skeleton of this bird Indians rioted in protest to murder the whites who had the audacity to continue to desecrate the tomb of the cacique. There was no way to appease them and the neighbors had to abandon the effort.
was in 1868 and a new generation that was in Locumba, but that did not become extinct superstition among the Indians.
Colonel Pio Mariano Cornejo, after having been in Lima Minister of War and Navy, had just set in one of his estates Locumba Valley, led new company to dig up the treasure. Trabajose with determination, sacáronse stones, sticks, mats, and finally came to discover the basket. Two or three more days of work, and all felt sure to find, along with the corpse of the chief, the coveted treasure. Extracted
the basket, saw himself containing the skeleton of a vicuña.
Indians launched a hideous scream, throwing axes, picks and hoes and ran in terror. There
including the tradition that would no stone unturned in their homes with sacrilegious hand if any man touched the body of the chief.
The pleas, threats and bribes were, for many days, powerless to overcome the resistance of the Indians. After
It occurred to one of the partners to use a resource that with difficulty resist the Indians: brandy. Just getting drunk could be obtained to take the tools.
Removed the last hurdles the corpse of the chief of Locumba.
"Victory!" Exclaimed the stakeholders. Perhaps there was only a few inches further excavation to be owners of the coveted golden yew.
A steward was launched on the skeleton and wanted to separate.
Just then a sinister underground noise forced everyone to flee in terror. Houses collapsed Locumba, opened cracks in the surface of the earth, springing from her fetid water gushing, men could not stand standing, the animals were running scared and has melted down and collapse again to cover the tomb of the cacique.
had been done the superstitious omen of the Indians, by touching the body, came the destruction and terror.
was five-quarter of the fateful August 13, 1868, the day of harrowing memories for people in Arica and other peoples of the South. Among
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