Ebook: Ayacucho Reader

Publication date: 1963
Pages: 183This text was prepared by the Quechua Language Materials Project of Cornell University under contract with the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education Contract No. SAE-9513, authorized by Public Law 85-864,Title VI, Part A, Section 602.
The stories collected in this volume have been selected to illustrate the complete range of Quechua oral tradition in the Ayacucho speech area. Included are stories of the super-natural beings kondenado, bruha, and ukumari (ukuku); tales of human folly; fairy tales; animal stories; humorous stories; and a pre-Incan myth. The tales are followed by a collection of untranslated verses, originally lyrics of huaynos, yaravies, and carnival songs, gathered from various sources and intended to show the topical and stylistic variations characteristic of the non-prose forms.