Monday, October 12, 2015

mon., 12 oct., 2015: so, tis christopho colombo day: give us This Day our Daily Curse

QUECHUA:   pukakunka   ‡‡
QUECHUA:  ¡Manañam kunanmanta wakchakayniykiwan wiraqocha mikhunqañachu¡  ‡‡

‡)  lit., “redneck  Inca term for the Castilian Spaniards, dating fr. late 17th. & 18th. c. insurgencies.
 ‡‡)  From now on, no more shall Spaniards feast on our poverty!”    attributed to Inca Tuba Amaru II, who ran an Insurgent Inca State in the remote Andes,  fr. which he declared war on the occupying Spaniards    speech circa 1780.

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