Ollanta

“ Enter Ollanta (in a mantle fringed with gold bezants, and with a club over his shoulder) , and his servant Piqui Chaqui.
Ollanta.
Piqui Chaqui ricunquichu
Cusi Coyllurtac huasinpi?
Piqui Chaqui, hast thou seen
Cusi Coyllur in her house?
Piqui Chaqui.
Ama Ynti munachunchu
Chayman churacunaitacca
Manachu ccanccu manchanqui
Incacc14 ususin casccantacca?
No! The Sun would not permit
That I should go near it.
How is it that you have no fear,
She being daughter of the Ynca?
Ollanta. ”

“ Even when thy heart is appeased.
(Caught as with a lasso.)
Dost thou not desire his daughter,
That maddening Coyllur,
That Cusi, that she may fall.
Refrain from this!
Do not commit this crime.
Keep thy heart from it.
Though she loves thee much,
Do not thus with her soul.
Do not act in this way,
Do not commit this crime,
Showing such ingratitude
In return for great favours!
The Ynca will not suffer it,
For he loves the Coyllur.
If you should speak of it,
His rage will be great.
Are you becoming mad
Auquimanta cahuac runan?
At having been created an Auqui?
Ollanta. ”

“ Ollanta! See thou to this.
Ollanta.
Hacu, huarma, utccay pusahuay
Pin mamayquita sipiscan.
Come, child, let us go.
Who has hurt thy mother?
Yma Sumac.
Amapuni ccancca riychu
Yncaypuni ricumuchun
Paytac payta recsimuchun
Manan ccanta resiquichu
Utccay Ynca sayarillay
Paccta mamayta tariyman
Huañusccata y happinman
Chalatanta: y uyarihuay.
Thou shalt not go,
The Ynca must see.
He it is who knows her,
While you do not.
Ynca, rise up quickly.
Would you find my mother
Lying dead? Listen,
And come to her.
Uillac Umu. ”

“ In his monstrous sentence in 1781, the Judge Areche prohibited "the representation of dramas, as well as all other festivals which the Indians celebrated in memory of their Yncas." [15] This proves that the ancient dramas of the Yncas were remembered and actually performed down to the year 1781; for those composed by Spanish priests cannot be intended, as they would not be prohibited by a Spanish judge.
These considerations will enable us to form an opinion of the antiquity of the drama of Ollanta ”

“ The heroic chief of the Chancas, defeated in the time of the Ynca Uira-ccocha.
(k) Macana is a war club.
(l) This is a pun of Piqui Chaqui. Huarancca means a thousand, but it is also the name of Ollanta's chief lieutenant.
(m) Uillcañuta is the snowy peak in sight from Cuzco (G. de la Vega, II. p. 255) . Ollanta, as the highest of men, is compared to the loftiest among peaks. Uillca means anything sacred.
(n) The use of the word count in these passages, is intended as a pun on the name of the Ynca Yupanqui ("You will count") . See note (2.) ”

“ Pachacutec is succeeded by his son Ynpanqui, who had been absent for many years, engaged in the conquest of the coast valleys, and who is supposed to be imperfectly informed of the events that had taken place round Cuzco. He entrusted the command against the rebel to Rumi-ñaui, who adopted a cunning stratagem. Concealing his army in a neighbouring ravine, he came to the stronghold of the rebels, and appeared before Ollanta covered with blood, declaring that he had been cruelly treated by the new Ynca, and that he desired to join the insurrection. ”

“ They were performed before the ill-fated Tupac Amaru, whose intimate friend, Dr Valdez, committed the drama of Ollanta to writing, at about the time of the insurrection of the Ynca. [22] Thus we have a chain of evidence connecting the drama of Dr Valdez with the performance enacted before Tupac Amaru, the words of which had been orally transmitted from ancient Yncarial times. To these considerations are to be added the far more conclusive proofs of antiquity derived from the work itself. There is not a single modern or Spanish word or phrase in the whole work ”

“ The music plays, with tambors and pincullus.
Ollanta.
Urcco Huarancca Auqui cay
Anti-suyuta camachiy
Urcco Huarancca be noble!
To rule over Anti-suyu!
Caycca chucuy, caycca huachiy
Sinchi huaminccatac cay.
(Huaminccaypas ccantac)
Here are these arrows, here this helmet!
That you may also be valiant. ”

“ They bring forth Ollanta, Urco Huarancca, and Anco-Huallu.
Ñahuinta quichay chaycunata
Ollantay maypin carcanqui?
Maypin canqui Urco Huarancca?
Cunanmi ticrasca canca.
Take off the bandages from their eyes.
Where art thou, Ollanta?
Where, Urco Huarancca, art thou?
Now thou art astonished.
They bring forth Piqui Chaqui as a prisoner.
Pitan horcco munqui chaypi?
Who is this brought with them?
Piqui Chaqui.
Chay yuncapin ancha piquin
Chaymi runata quirichan
Unu ccoñi chayta pichan
Chayllatan ñoccapacca sipui.
In the valleys are many fleas
That bite a man very sharp. ”

“ Ccapac Ynca
Chay huascataracc pascachiy
Cay huañusccata causachiy!
Friend of the poor! great Ynca!
Order them to unchain her,
Give life to the dead.
Uillac Umu.
Ñoccan chaytacca pascanay
Ñaccaricta yanapanay.
I ought to free her,
I should be her friend.
Ollanta.
Yma sutin mamayquicca?
What is the name of thy mother?
Yma Sumac.
Cusi Ccoyllur sutincca.
Cusi Coyllur is her name.
Ynca Yupanqui.
Ñan ricunqui pantasccatu
Chay sutinta, pampasccata
Maypis capunpas samincca.
You seem to be mistaken in
That name. She is gone
Where she has happiness.
Ollanta. ”

“ Enter Ollanta, Hanco Huayllu, and Urco Huarancca, with attendant Captains.
Urco Huarancca.
Ñan huamincca chasquisunqui
Anti-suyu runa-cuna:
Anchan huaccan huarmi-cuna
Ricunqui cunan ricunqui:
Chayantatas purincca
Tucuy runa, tucuy Auqui
Ancha carun purinayqui
Yma ppunchaucha taninca
Sapa huata llocsinanchis
Chay caru llactacunaman
[Chay aucca runacunaman]
Yahuartan llipi hichanchis
The valiant men receive thee,
Even the men of Anti-suyu;
And the women also.
Thou shalt see! thou shalt see!
They will march to Anta.
All the men and their chief,
Thou shalt march with them. ”

“ Ollanta.
Ychacca ricsinccan Ynca
Ollantaypa chusasccanta
Tucuytan tarincca aucanta
Tucuytacmi saquerencca.
Perhaps the Ynca knows
That Ollanta is absent,
That all are his enemies,
And have abandoned him.
Piqui Chaqui.
Hinantinmi munasunqui
Ancha ccocucc cactiquicha
Tucuypacmi raquicunqui
Ñocallapactacmi micha.
You would want all
Because you are liberal.
To all the world you are prodigal,
But to me you are penurious.
Ollanta. ”

“ Rumi-Ñahui.
[Maipin ñinay Ollantaycca?
Where is Ollanta? Tell me!
Piqui Chaqui.
[Chusapunaccanmi tataycca
Manan pocconchu paccayca
Pocchupurccanmi callpayca
Sasan chay cuncu llantaycca
Ynca uccupin Mancanaycca
Ancha carus sallccantaycca] .
My father is from home,
And the paccays are not ripe.
I have a long walk to-day,
It is difficult to carry me.
The Ynca would cut up his body.
The desert is very far off.
Rumi-Ñahui.
[Astahuan phiñachihuascay
Ricuy huancunccoyquimantacc.]
If you vex me again
I will take your life.
Piqui Chaqui.
Ollanta? ccanin sayarin. ”

“ Ollanta.
Ollantay ccarim carqui
Ama ymata manchaychu
Ama chailla anchayaichu.
(Ccampac pisipan manchaichu)
Ccanmi Ccoyllur ccancha-huanqui
Ccanmi Ccoyllur (llanta)
Piqui Chaqui maypincanqui?
Ollanta! thou art a man!
Thou hast valour.
Thou hast no fear.
Coyllur, it is thee I must protect.
Piqui Chaqui, where art thou?
Piqui Chaqui.
Puñurccusani nanacctan
Tapiapacmi mosccocuni.
I have slept like a stone,
And have dreamt bad dreams.
Ollanta.
Ymata?
What?
Piqui Chaqui.
Huc atoccta30 huatasccata.
Huc (asnuta) [2]
Huc (llamata) [3]
Of a fox tied up. ”

“ Enter Rumi-Ñahui dressed in mourning, with two Attendants.
Rumi-Ñahui.
Sallocc Rumi! Rumi Ñahui!
Yma quencha rumin canqui
Ccaccamantan llocsircanqui
Sonccoyquim curaca ccahuy!
(Chaimi ccasapac Yarahui)
Manachu maquiqui carccan?
Chay huayccopi pacasccata
Ollantayta ccarcoscata
Manachu yuyarircanqui
Tapara soncco casccanta?
Ah Rumi! Rumi Ñahui!
What an unfortunate art thou!
Thou hast escaped from a rock—
For me it is a sad yarahui!
Have you not in your hands,
Hidden in this valley,
The fugitive Ollanta?
Dost thou not remember
That he has a treacherous heart? ”

“ Ynca yuyaycusccayquita
Ccorochinccan umayquita
Ccantacc canqui aycha canca.
Are there not many other maidens
That you can love before you are old?
The day that a knowledge of your love
Shall come to the Ynca,
He will have your head cut off,
And your body roasted like meat.
Ollanta. ”

“ Rumi-Ñahui.
Quimsa ppunchau raymi cachun
Cusicuypas tacsa canman
Chaypacc ichas alliyaiman
Soncconco chaypac rimachun.
The Raymi will be for three days;
The time of joy is short;
By that time I shall be well.
I speak from my heart.
Ollanta.
Hinan cancca, quimsa tuta
Hatun Yntita huatasun
Cusipi tucuy tiasun
Huisccasunchis cay tamputa.
So be it. Three nights,
We gaze on the great Sun;
We shall be seated in joy,
For that time the Tampu is closed.
Rumi-Ñahui. ”

“ Ynca Pachacutec.
Ollantay ccan runan canqui
Hinallapitacc quepariy
Pin casccayquita ccahuariy
Ancha huichaytan ccahuanqui.
Ollanta, thou art a man.
Remain as thou art.
Remember what thou hast been.
Thou lookest too high.
Ollanta.
Huc camallaña sipihuay.
Take my life at once.
Ynca Pachacutec.
Ñoccan chaitacca ricunay
Manan ccampa acllanayquichu
[Ñihuay Yuyayñiquipichu39a
Carccanqui? utccay ripullay.]
It is for me to see to that,
It is not for thee to choose. ”

“ Enter Uillac Umu,24 gazing on the Sun, wearing a black "uncu," and with a knife in his hand.
Uillac Umu.
Causacc Ynti, yupiquitan
Ullpuycuspa yupaychani
Ccan pacctaccmi huaccaychani
Huarancca llama hinatan.
Ppunchaynipi cconospa
Yahuarñinta ccaillai pi
O living Sun! I watch thy course
As thou marchest onwards.
For thee are now preparing
A thousand llamas
For the day of thy festival.
Their blood shall flow in thy presence.
Ninapi canaspa llipi
Rupachincca mana accospa.
For thee are they destroyed in the fire,
And shall burn, after the fast is over.
Ollanta. ”

“ Yscay ñachu ccanca Ynca
Antisuyupi huamincca
[Puma pacchu cancca mirca
Yuncapi ancca matinca!]
Then there will be two Yncas
In the warlike Anti-suyu.
The lion will not brook
An enemy in his valley.
Ccapac Yupanqui.
Manan Rumi yscaychu canca
Urco Huarancca camachincca
Anti-suyuta; chay captincca
Ollanta Cozcopi canca
Yncarantin qqueparinan
Arpayñiypi69 tiyaycuspa
Cozcota camachicuspa
Hinan caypi sayarinan.
No, Rumi; there will not be two.
Urco Huarancca will rule
In Anti-suyu.
Ollanta will in Cuzco
Remain. ”

“ From this Justiniani text my first very faulty line-for-line translation was made in 1871, as well as the present free translation.
The first printed notice of Ollantay appeared in the Museo Erudito, Nos. 5 to 9, published at Cuzco in 1837, and edited by Don José Palacios. The next account of the drama, with extracts, was in the ‘Antiguedades Peruanas,’ a work published in 1851 jointly by Dr. von Tschudi and Don Mariaiao Rivero of Arequipa. The complete text, from the copy in the convent of San Domingo at Cuzco, was first published at Vienna in 1853 by Dr. ”

“ For this great service the chief of Anta was declared to be a noble of the highest rank and cousin to the Inca family. Moreover, the daughter of the Anta chief was married to the Inca Uira-cocha, and was the mother of Pachacuti. Assuming, as seems probable, that Ollantay was a son of the chief of Anta, he would be a cousin of the Inca, and of very high rank, though not an agnate of the reigning family. This, I take it, is what is intended. Pachacuti desired to raise his family high above all others, and that, consequently, there should be no marriages with subjects even of the highest rank ”

“ Antonio seemed overjoyed at this Discovery, and I was as much grieved: For no Woman had ever a greater desire to be thought Wise, than I to be thought otherwise. He came to see me every day from that time, and when his Friend told him, that he hoped he would not dispute Olinda's Power any longer, since she made him so absolutely forget her, whom he had once preferred so much to her; he said, that it was not the same Olinda whom he loved, for she had chang'd her Soul. ”

“ You wou'd alter your Opinion, says Antonio, if you knew them both as well as I; for Olinda's Beauty is more than doubly Valu'd by the others Wit, and solid Judgment. But Olinda has both, Replyed the Gentleman; which I believe you can't but know if you have ever talk'd with, or heard of her: For every body gives her that Character. They Wrong her extreamly, says Antonio, for she is really Foolish to deserve Pity; I never Conversed with a Woman whose Company was so tiresome; she talks Eternally, and not one Word of Common Sense. ”

“ Beams settled with a tired sigh into their old mortices; creatures ticked in the walls; joints cracked, boards complained; with no palpable stirring of the air window-sashes changed their positions with a soft knock in their frames. And whether the place had life in this sense or not, it had at all events a winsome personality. It needed but an hour of musing for Oleron to conceive the idea that, as his own body stood in friendly relation to his soul, so, by an extension and an attenuation, his habitation might fantastically be supposed to stand in some relation to himself. ”

“ What a great man was Olando, to record the lives of a small army of humanity! Sweet were the emblems he placed over their faded lives. Close to the specimens of his handiwork are older stones on which are figured skulls and other cruel reminders of death; but Olando gave his tired ones the emblems of nature, the never-ceasing resurrection. The elements are sweeping away some of his trees and flowers, it is true, for this youth from New England came to cut tombstones as a travelling apprentice to one Thompson, in the spring before Aaron Burr thought of Staten Island as his last home. ”