The Huarochiri Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion

Frank Salomon

Published by University of Texas Press 1991

The Huarochiri Manuscript

A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion

Frank Salomon
With contributions by: George L. Urioste

https://doi.org/10.7560/730526

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One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochirí Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochirí Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religions.

The Huarochirí Manuscript holds a summation of native Andean religious tradition and an image of the superhuman and human world as imagined around A.D. 1600. The tellers were provincial Indians dwelling on the west Andean slopes near Lima, Peru, aware of the Incas but rooted in peasant, rather than imperial, culture. The manuscript is thought to have been compiled at the behest of Father Francisco de Avila, the notorious "extirpator of idolatries." Yet it expresses Andean religious ideas largely from within Andean categories of thought, making it an unparalleled source for the prehispanic and early colonial myths, ritual practices, and historic self-image of the native Andeans.

Prepared especially for the general reader, this edition of the Huarochirí Manuscript contains an introduction, index, and notes designed to help the novice understand the culture and history of the Huarochirí-area society. For the benefit of specialist readers, the Quechua text is also supplied.

Author / Editor information

Frank Salomon is John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

George L. Urioste is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Reviews

This work represents the most fulsome and developed narrative available to us of how local people in a provincial setting in the Inca Empire conceived of their society and its past.... This book will stand for some time as the definitive transcription and English translation of a seminal document in Andean cultural history.

— American Anthropologist

Although some Christian influence is discernible, the Huarochirí cycle is as close as we are likely to come to a purely Andean expression of the supernatural.... Urioste's transcription of the Quechua is included, and an Introductory Essay by Frank Salomon is an excellent study aid for both novices and adepts.

— Latin American Indian Literatures Journal

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introductory Essay: The Huarochiri Manuscript Frank Salomon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
THE HUAROCHIRÍ MANUSCRIPT
[Preface] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 1. How the Idols of Old Were, and How They Warred among Themselves, and How the Natives Existed at That Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 2. How Cuni Raya Vira Cocha Acted in His Own Age. The Life of Cuni Raya Vira Cocha. How Caui Llaca Gave Birth to His Child, and What Followed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 3. What Happened to t he Indians in Ancient Times When the Ocean Overflowed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 4. How the Sun Disappeared for Five Days. In What Follows We Shall Tell a Story about the Death of the Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 5. How in Ancient Times Paria Caca Appeared on a Mountain Named Condor Coto in the Form of Five Eggs, and What Followed. Here Will Begin the Account of Paria Caca's Emergence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 6. How Paria Caca Was Born as Five Falcons and Then Turned into Persons, and How, Already Victorious over All the Yunca of Anchi Cocha, He Began to Walk toward Paria Caca Mountain, and What Happened along the Way Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 7. How Those Cupara People Revere the One Called Chuqui Suso Even to This Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 8. How Paria Caca Ascended. How One Man Came Back with His Child by Following Paria Caca's Commands, and, Finally, How He Struggled with Huallallo Caruincho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 9. How Paria Caca, Having Accomplished All This, Began to Ordain His Own Cult Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 10. Who Chaupi Namca Was, Where She Dwells, and How She Arranged Her Cult Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 11. How People Danced the Chanco Dance. In Speaking of These Matters, We Shall Also Tell Who Tutay Quiri, the Child of Paria Caca, Was. The Story Is Like This Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 12. How Paria Caca's Children Undertook the Conquest of All the Yunca People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 13. Mama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
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Chapter 15. Next We Shall Write about What Was Mentioned in the Second Chapter, Namely, Whether Cuni Raya Existed before or after Caruincho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 16. Here We Shall Write on Whether Paria Caca, Born from Five Eggs, Was Composed of Brothers or Whether Paria Caca Was Their Father, Things of This Kind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 17 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
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Chapter 20. Here Begins the Life of Llocllay Huancupa. In What Follows, We Shall Also Write about Its End Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 21. Although a Dream Is Not Valid, We Shall Speak about That Demon's Frightful Deeds and Also about the Way in Which Don Cristobal Defeated Him Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
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Chapter 23. We Shall Write Here about the Inca's Summons to All the Huacas. We Shall Also Speak Here of Maca Uisa's Victory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 24. Next We Shall Write about the Customs of the Checa, the Machua Yunca Festival and Its Dances, and, Finally, about the Origin of the People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 25. Here We Shall Write How the Wind Blew the Colli People from Yaru Tini Down to the Lower Yunca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 26. How Paria Caca Defeated Maca Calla. How He Established His Children after His Victory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 27. How in Former Times, on the Fifth Day after Their Death, People Said, "I'm Back!" We Shall Write about These Things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 28. How People Used to Feed the Spirits of the Dead during Paria Caca's Festival and How They Thought about All Saints' Day in Former Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter 29. How Something Called the Yacana Comes Down from the Sky to Drink Water. We Shall Also Speak about the Other Stars and Their Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter 30. How Two Huacas, a Male and a Female, Dwell in the Lake of the Allauca in Purui. We Shall Write about Their Lives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 31. As in the Previous Chapter We Spoke about the Existence of a Certain Lake, Likewise We Shall Now Tell about the Lake of the Concha Ayllu, the One Called Yansa. The Story Is Like This Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
[Supplement I] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
[Supplement II] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Transcription of the Huarochiri Manuscript Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Glossary of Untranslated Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Bibliographic References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Languages: English, English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288

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Published: January 13, 2014
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