Ollantay (to Urco Huaranca).

 

Select the chiefs!

Fix all the posts for different tribes;

Our foes keep marching without sleep--

Contrive to check them by surprise.

The compi[FN#42] ruse may cause their flight.

 

 

 

[FN#42]  Compi, cloth or a cloak.  This was an expression of the ancient

Peruvians, perhaps equivalent to our 'hoodwinking.'

 

 

 

 

Urco Huaranca.

 

Thirty thousand brave Antis are here,

Amongst them no weakling is found;

Apu Maruti,[FN#43] the mighty in war,

From high Uilcapampa[FN#44] will come,

On steep Tinquiqueru[FN#45] he'll stand

To march when the signal appears;

 

 

 

[FN#43]  Apu Maruti was the head of the ayllu of the Inca Yahuar Huaccac,

grandfather of Pachacuti.  It was called the ayllu Aucaylli

Panaca.--Mesa, Anales del Cuzco, quoted by Zegarra.

 

[FN#44]  Uilcapampa, mass of mountains between the Uilcamayu and

Apurimac.

 

[FN#45]  Tinqui Queru, between Urupampa and Tampu. The word means 'two

vases coupled.'  Here are two rounded hills connected by a saddle, three

and a half miles from Tampu.

 

 

 

 

On the opposite side of the stream

Prince Chara[FN#46] has mustered his force;

In the gorge Charamuni[FN#47] I post

Ten thousand armed Antis on watch;

Another such force is in wait

On the left, in the vale of Pachar.[FN#48]

We are ready to meet our foes,

We await them with resolute calm;

They will march in their confident pride

Until their retreat is out off,

Then the trumpet of war shall resound,

From the mountains the stones shall pour down,