ABOUT TUNUPA OF PINKUYLLUNA HILL

Ollantaytambo is considered as the Inka’s living city because this town still keeps many characteristics of the Inka’s city planning; most of the houses are built with Inka’s foundation, after the street is the main square of Ollantaytambo where according to some archeologist when they excavated they found pieces of pre-inka culture, Killke, like in Pisaq, this culture has expanded until this lands, after is the Patacancha river that divides the town in two parts, after is the same archeological complex, at the bottom is the sacred plaza where around there are niches around this plaza, and nowadays here is where is carried out the Ollantay drama, in front there are many terraces that were used for supporting the earth and the buildings up, those worked as contention walls, and to get up there are stairs, when you are at the middle you have a view of the two valleys the Urubamba valley and the valley that comes from the northeast, in front you is the mountain called as Pinkuylluna, where according to local belief is representing the face of Tunupa who was, and local tradition mentions that in ancient times, when Ollantaytambo was a pre-inka village, the villagers lived in a common, without rules, laws, nothing, one day appeared Tunupa (who was an old man carrying on his back his belongings, who used to walk underground) and tried to educate to the villagers, but at the first moment as happens with many villages, they did not accept those rules, but when they saw that all that knowledge that the old man was teaching them was good and they started improving everything like construction, agriculture, but when it was time to leave the town and go again walking to teach other towns, but villagers did not want it that is why they decided to close him into a room but as he walked underground for the next day he disappeared, and villagers decides to built a representation of Tunupa on the hill of the mountain. But it is just a deformation of the rock because it is difficult to go and climb until that altitude.