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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