Introductory Essay: The Huarochiri Manuscript Frank Salomon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introductory Essay: The Huarochiri Manuscript Frank Salomon 1
5. THE HUAROCHIRÍ MANUSCRIPT
6. [Preface] 41
7. Chapter 1. How the Idols of Old Were, and How They Warred among Themselves, and How the Natives Existed at That Time 43
8. 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 46
9. Chapter 3. What Happened to t he Indians in Ancient Times When the Ocean Overflowed 51
10. Chapter 4. How the Sun Disappeared for Five Days. In What Follows We Shall Tell a Story about the Death of the Sun 53
11. 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 54
12. 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 61
13. Chapter 7. How Those Cupara People Revere the One Called Chuqui Suso Even to This Day 64
14. 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 66
15. Chapter 9. How Paria Caca, Having Accomplished All This, Began to Ordain His Own Cult 70
16. Chapter 10. Who Chaupi Namca Was, Where She Dwells, and How She Arranged Her Cult 77
17. 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 79
18. Chapter 12. How Paria Caca's Children Undertook the Conquest of All the Yunca People 82
19. Chapter 13. Mama 84
20. Chapter 14 88
21. Chapter 15. Next We Shall Write about What Was Mentioned in the Second Chapter, Namely, Whether Cuni Raya Existed before or after Caruincho 91
22. 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 92
23. Chapter 17 94
24. Chapter 18 96
25. Chapter 19 99
26. Chapter 20. Here Begins the Life of Llocllay Huancupa. In What Follows, We Shall Also Write about Its End 101
27. 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 107
28. Chapter 22 111
29. 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 114
30. 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 117
31. Chapter 25. Here We Shall Write How the Wind Blew the Colli People from Yaru Tini Down to the Lower Yunca 125
32. Chapter 26. How Paria Caca Defeated Maca Calla. How He Established His Children after His Victory 127
33. Chapter 27. How in Former Times, on the Fifth Day after Their Death, People Said, "I'm Back!" We Shall Write about These Things 129
34. 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 130
35. 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 132
36. 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 134
37. 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 136
38. [Supplement I] 145
39. [Supplement II] 151
40. Transcription of the Huarochiri Manuscript 155
41. Glossary of Untranslated Words 255
42. Bibliographic References 257
43. Index 263