| Huarcuna Palla, Peruvian tradition, written by D. Ricardo Palma in 1860. is the story of a girl that the Inca India pachi sentenced to death for loving a warrior pachi. If anyone knows the hill Huarcuna Palla, write. |
place Where the son of the Sun so large entourage? Tupac-Yupanqui
, rich in all virtues, as they call the aravah of Cuzco, is touring in their vast empire triumphant, and wherever he goes screaming rise unanimous blessing. The people applauded his sovereign, because he gives prosperity and happiness.
The victory has accompanied his brave army, and the indomitable tribe pachis is subject.
Warrior llautu 1 red! Your body has been bathed in the blood of enemies, and people come to your way to admire your bravery. Women
! Leaves the distaff and leads out to your little ones to learn, by soldiers of the Inca, to fight for their country. The giant condor wings, wounded and treacherously and without strength to cross the blue sky has fallen on the highest peak in the Andes, staining the snow with their blood. The high priest, seeing him dying, said to be about the downfall of the empire of Manco Capac, and other people come on board canoes high 2 to impose their religion and laws.
you, old man, because only the dust of your bones will be trampled by the foreigner, and will not see your eyes on the day of humiliation for yours! But meanwhile, daughter of Mama oh-Ocllo!, Bring your children not to forget the courage of their parents, when in the life of the country sounds the hour of conquest.
Beautiful are your hymns, girl pink lips, but your accent is the bitterness of captivity.
Perhaps in your native valleys left the idol of your heart and today, preceded by singing with your sisters, golden litter carried on his shoulders curacas nobles, you have to drown tears and sing praises to the conqueror. No, turtledove of the woods! ... The beloved of your soul is near you, and is also one of the prisoners of the Inca.
The night begins to fall upon the mountains, and the royal procession stops at Izcuchaca. Suddenly the alarm is rife in the camp.
The beautiful captive, she guairuros collar, intended for the king's harem, was caught fleeing with her lover, who died defending it. Tupac-Yupanqui
orders death for unfaithful slave. And she listens
glad the sentence, because it longs to meet with the owner of his mind and he knows that no country is the land of eternal love.
And since then, oh traveler!, If you know the site where the captive was sacrificed, the site that people of Huancayo give the name of Palla-Huarcuna, look at the range of hills, and between Izcuchaca and see a rock Huaynanpuquio having the forms of India with a neck collar and feathered turban on his head. The rock seems artistically carved, and the natives of the country, in its simple superstition, judging the evil genius of its region, believing that no one can dare to spend the night by Palla-Huarcuna without being devoured by the ghost of stone.
1 llautu - sort of thick tape that was at the head of the Incas. It was leather and adorned vicuña with feathers. Denoted power. Back
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