Friday, April 23, 2010

ABOUT THE NAME OF OLLANTAYTAMBO

Ollantay that the name of an army general who according to tradition was one of the principal’s of the inka ruler Pachaquteq, Ollantay with Cusy Qoyllor (Pacaqutes’s daughter) got love each other, but it was forbidden by the ruler, because just she could get love with someone of nobility from her same level, and Ollantay was not member of this level, that is why the Inka ruler took him out, and he came to this lands and armed his army to fight against Pachaquteq,he established here, but when the years passed the general Rumi Ñawi (Rumi means stone and Ñawi means eye) won him in a battle and he was taken to Cusco but Pachaquteq was dead and his son Topa Inka Yupanqui was the new Inka Ruler, and he forgave them (Ollantay and Cusi Qoyllor) and let them get married, and for that time they had a daughter, this story was kept as an oral tradition and after written as a drama by Antonio Valdez, a priest from Urubamba by the middle of the XVIII century.

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