Gain Access The Huarochiri Manuscript: A Testament Of Ancient And Colonial Andean Religion Fashioned By Frank Salomon Compiled As Softcover

c.This amazing book offers a glimpse into precolonial Andean culture, Like versions of the Popol Vuh, it was recorded under the supervision of Catholic priests with the intent to learn about indigenous practices so as to eradicate them while forcing Christianity on the people.
There are lots of moments where the text performs the Quechua writer's resistance to forced acculturation, The editors include marginal notes and crossed out words that show the hand of the Christians at work too.
Still the stories are lewd and funny and altogether different from any mythology of the European variety, Permite acercarnos un poco mas al pensamiento indígena y las creencias de los ancestros de América antes y después de la colonización y masacre española One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochiri Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilizationdefining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas.
This translation by Frank Salomon and George L, Urioste marks the first time the Huarochiri Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to Englishspeaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religions.


The Huarochiri Manuscript holds a summation of native Andean religious tradition and an image of the superhuman and human world as imagined around A.
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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 selfimage of the native Andeans.


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