Huarochiri Manuscript

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductory Essay: The HuarochirÍ Manuscript The manuscript as testamentAndean religion and "Inca religion"General outline of the HuarochirÍ manuscriptEarly times and peoplesThe Paria Caca cycle and the myths of group identityChaupi Ñamca and the mythology of genderThe Incas as seen from HuarochirÍThe Spanish invasion as seen from HuarochirÍSpecialized chaptersThe HuarochirÍ region's people and their historic situationInto the world of the huacasPacha: 'earth, world, time, place'Camay: a concept of specific essence and force, 'to charge with being, to infuse with species power'Huaca: 'superhuman person, shrine, holy and powerful object'; huaca priesthoodYuriy/yumay: concepts of human birth and descentAyllu: corporate landholding collectivity self-defined as ancestor-focused kindredLlacta: 'village' as cultic and territorial unitThe original textThe possible genesis of the text in the local conjuncturePrevious editions of the HuarochirÍ manuscriptThe character of the present translation Language substrates and non-Quechua languages Quechua other than the "general" dialectLanguage(s) of the Jaqi (Aymara) familyNon-Quechua, non-Jaqi native lexicon?SpanishThe problem of redactionThe problem of validationTranslation of style Framing sentencesNarrative passagesVersified speech in semantic coupletsOther translation conventionsNote conventionsTranscription conventionsToponymic and onomastic spelling conventionsIndex and glossaryThe HuarochirÍ Manuscript [Preface]Chapter 1. How the Idols of Old Were, and How They Warred among Themselves, and How the Natives Existed at That TimeChapter 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 FollowedChapter 3. What Happened to the Indians in Ancient Times When the Ocean Overflowed Chapter 4. How the Sun Disappeared for Five Days. In What Follows We Shall Tell a Story about the Death of the SunChapter 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 EmergenceChapter 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 WayChapter 7. How Those Cupara People Revere the One Called Chuqui Suso Even to This DayChapter 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 CaruinchoChapter 9. How Paria Caca, Having Accomplished All This, Began to Ordain His Own CultChapter 10. Who Chaupi Ñamca Was, Where She Dwells, and How She Arranged Her CultChapter 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 ThisChapter 12. How Paria Caca's Children Undertook the Conquest of All the Yunca PeopleChapter 13. MamaChapter 14.Chapter 15. Next We Shall Write about What Was Mentioned in the SecondChapter, Namely, Whether Cuni Raya Existed before or after CaruinchoChapter 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 KindChapter 17.Chapter 18.Chapter 19.Chapter 20. Here Begins the Life of Llocllay Huancupa. In What Follows, We Shall Also Write about Its EndChapter 21. Although a Dream Is Not Valid, We Shall Speak about That Demon's Frightful Deeds and Also about the Way in Which Don CristÓbal Defeated HimChapter 22.Chapter 23. We Shall Write Here about the Inca's Summons to All the Huacas. We ShallAlso Speak Here of Maca Uisa's VictoryChapter 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 PeopleChapter 25. Here We Shall Write How the Wind Blew the Colli People from Yaru Tini Down to the Lower YuncaChapter 26. How Paria Caca Defeated Maca Calla. How He Established His Children after His VictoryChapter 27. How in Former Times, on the Fifth Day after Their Death, People Said, "I'm Back!" We Shall Write about These ThingsChapter 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 TimesChapter 29. How Something Called the Yacana Comes Down from the Sky to Drink Water. We Shall Also Speak about the Other Stars and Their NamesChapter 30. How Two Huacas, a Male and a Female, Dwell in the Lake of the Allauca in Purui. We Shall Write about Their LivesChapter 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[Supplement I][Supplement II]Transcription of the HuarochirÍ ManuscriptGlossary of Untranslated WordsBibliographic ReferencesIndex

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)