To This My Song (Caylla llapi)

Ñawinchay, mayqin simipi: Runasimi castellano

To this my song
You will sleep.
In dead of night
I will come.

Originally Published In: First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas Press: Hakluyt Society Year:1869

Period:	Prehispanic & Colonial

Country:	Peru, Quechua Diaspora

Region/City:	Cusco

Theme:	love/intimacy

Author: El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Originally Published In: First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas Press: Hakluyt SocietyYear:1869 Categories: Introduction, Musuq Illa Book, Poems

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El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

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First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas

ByEl Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Beautiful Maiden (Sumac ñusta)

ByEl Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Beautiful maiden
Thy brother
Thine urn
Is now breaking.
And for this cause
It thunders and lightens
Thunderbolts also fall.
But thou, royal maiden
With thy clear waters
Dropping rain
And sometimes also
Will give us hail
Will give us snow
The creator of the world
Pachacamac
Viracocha
For this duty
Has appointed you
Has created you.