The Huarochirí manuscript: a testament of ancient and colonial Andean religion

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• Acknowledgments (page xi)

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• Introductory Essay: The Huarochirí Manuscript (page 1)

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• THE HUAROCHIRÍ MANUSCRIPT

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• [Preface] (page 41)

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• Chapter 1 How the Idols of Old Were, and How They Warred among Themselves, and How the Natives Existed at That Time (page 43)

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• 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 (page 46)

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• Chapter 3 What Happened to the Indians in Ancient Times When the Ocean Overflowed (page 51)

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• Chapter 4 How the Sun Disappeared for Five Days. In What Follows We Shall Tell a Story about the Death of the Sun (page 53)

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• 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 (page 54)

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• 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 (page 61)

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• Chapter 7 How Those Cupara People Revere the One Called Chuqui Suso Even to This Day (page 64)

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• 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 (page 66)

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• Chapter 9 How Paria Caca, Having Accomplished All This, Began to Ordain His Own Cult (page 70)

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• Chapter 10 Who Chaupi Ñamca Was, Where She Dwells, and How She Arranged Her Cult (page 77)

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• 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 (page 79)

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• Chapter 12 How Paria Caca's Children Undertook the Conquest of All the Yunca People (page 82)

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• Chapter 13 Mama (page 84)

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• Chapter 14 (page 88)

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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 (page 91)

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• 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 (page 92)

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• Chapter 17 (page 94)

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• Chapter 18 (page 96)

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• Chapter 19 (page 99)

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• Chapter 20 Here Begins the Life of Llocllay Huancupa. In What Follows, We Shall Also Write about Its End (page 101)

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• 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 Cristóbal Defeated Him (page 107)

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• Chapter 22 (page 111)

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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 (page 114)

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• 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 (page 117)

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• Chapter 25 Here We Shall Write How the Wind Blew the Colli People from Yaru Tini Down to the Lower Yunca (page 125)

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• Chapter 26 How Paria Caca Defeated Maca Calla. How He Established His Children after His Victory (page 127)

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• Chapter 27 How in Former Times, on the Fifth Day after Their Death, People Said, "I'm Back!" We Shall Write about These Things (page 129)

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• 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 (page 130)

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• 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 (page 132)

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• 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 (page 134)

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• 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 (page 136)

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• [Supplement I] (page 145)

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• [Supplement II] (page 151)

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• Transcription of the Huarochirí Manuscript (page 155)

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• Glossary of Untranslated Words (page 255)

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• Bibliographic References (page 257)

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• Index (page 263)

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