{"id":11313,"date":"2021-11-18T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T05:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/2022\/05\/kichka-uma-tankar-kichka-by-dida-aguirre-garcia\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:16:15","slug":"kichka-uma-tankar-kichka-by-dida-aguirre-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/2021\/11\/kichka-uma-tankar-kichka-by-dida-aguirre-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"“Kichka uma \/ tankar kichka\u2026” by Dida Aguirre Garc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note: This poem is available to read in Quechua and English. Scroll down to read in English.<\/p>\n

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Kichka uma
\ntankar kichka
\n\u00f1awiymantam
\nyuraq qasa inti suturimun<\/p>\n

chuyunyaq orkokunapi
\nWanchuy chuya maypi<\/p>\n

sapan
\nsapachallan<\/p>\n

yana tutawan maytukuykuspa
\nllakillay
\npuriptin.
\nChaynama
\nllaqtanchik
\nyuraq qasa inti lloqlla
\nkay
\nchaki allpapi
\nlaswa sachachakuna laqwasq jina<\/p>\n

Kichka uma
\ntankar kichka
\n\u00f1awiymantam
\nlayqa<\/p>\n

rimarimun<\/p>\n

mana\u00f1am
\nlaswa sachachakuna kanku<\/p>\n

allpatam
\npatarichimunku
\nraku raku sapinkunawan<\/p>\n

ninayasqa\u00f1a
\nqaqayasqa\u00f1a<\/p>\n

llipipikuq
\nsacha kaspa.<\/p>\n

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Little Tankar<\/i>1<\/sup>\u00a0of thorny head,
\nice crystals like a white sun
\nfall from my eyes
\nover desolated regions, where the Orqos<\/i>2<\/sup> lives,
\nover pristine waters born in the Wanchuy <\/i>tree3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Lonely
\nvery lonely,
\nthe body is one with the fateful night
\nwhen my sorrow walks across this land.
\nOur territory is like
\na white frost
\na sun of dust.
\nThis infertile land
\nis crawling like the muddy and fallen trees in an avalanche.<\/p>\n

Little Tankar<\/i> of thorny head,
\nthrough my eyes
\nthe Layqa<\/i>4<\/sup> speaks in this land
\nAnd there are no muddy and fallen trees anymore<\/p>\n

The trees
\nare shaking the soils with its strong roots<\/p>\n

What a fire is burning now!
\nWhat perennial rock is rising now!<\/p>\n

Because they are new beings, splendid trees!<\/p>\n

Translated\u00a0from Quechua to English by Christian Elguera<\/p>\n

From the book Jarawi<\/i> (Lima: Editorial Universidad Federico Villarreal, 2000)<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> The Ta<\/em>nkar<\/em> is an Andean tree with a thorny body.<\/p>\n

2<\/sup>\u00a0In the Andes, local people consider Orqos<\/em> or mountains as mighty beings.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>\u00a0Andean populations believe trees such as the Wanchuy<\/em> to be the mothers of rivers.<\/p>\n

4<\/sup>\u00a0According to Guaman Poma de Ayala and Cristobal de Molina, Layqa<\/em> means a diabolic sorcerer. However, Layqa<\/em> is an indigenous religious specialist with the skills to interact with powerful deities or non-human entities in Andean rituals.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Woman weaving, Cusco, Peru, by Adrian Dascal, Unsplash<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little Tankar <\/i>of thorny head, \/ ice crystals like a white sun \/ fall from my eyes \/ over desolated regions, where the Orqos<\/i> lives, \/ over pristine waters born in the Wanchuy <\/i>tree. \/\/ Lonely \/ very lonely, \/ the body is one with the fateful night \/ when my sorrow walks across this land. \/ Our territory is like \/ a white frost \/ a sun of dust. \/ This infertile land \/ is crawling like the muddy and fallen trees in an avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2983,4444,2984,50],"genre":[2023],"pretext":[],"section":[2360],"translator":[2792],"lal_author":[3090],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-literatura-indigena","tag-numero-20","tag-peru-es","tag-quechua","genre-indigenous-literature-es","section-indigenous-literature-es","translator-christian-elguera-es-2","lal_author-dida-aguirre-garcia-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"pretext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pretext?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"lal_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lal_author?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}