{"id":298,"date":"2005-05-25T00:30:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T04:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/25\/more-legends-of-ancash\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T00:30:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T04:30:40","slug":"more-legends-of-ancash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/25\/more-legends-of-ancash\/","title":{"rendered":"More Legends of Ancash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5184'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/VillaMaria\/legends\/legends5.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"213\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>On a cold rainy night in Boston, Memorial Day around the corner though Spring hasn&#8217;t sprung, let alone Summer, it is nice to remember another world, in its way as different and as fantastic as Star Wars, but in reality only 18 hours away, by plane and bus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n  The legends in this collection can trace their origins to the Chavin culture.<br \/>\n  Reaching its height between 400 and 600 B.C., the Chavin civilization was known<br \/>\n  for its intense design skill, fueled by ritual use of psychedelic snuff, especially<br \/>\n  visible in their advanced textile and metal work. After a prolonged and gradual<br \/>\n  decline, they were eventually conquered by the Incas less than a hundred years<br \/>\n  before the arrival of the Spaniards.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>The Heart Sickness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Before the existence of the tiny town of Huacllan, in the same spot lived<br \/>\n    the tribe of the&nbsp; Wallas. The cacique (chief), a man much respected<br \/>\n    and feared for his honor and his cruelty had a daughter named Kori (Gold),<br \/>\n    whom he adored. <\/p>\n<p>        Kori was secretly in love with a man with a disfigured face, which made<br \/>\n          him horrible to look&nbsp; at. And despite her strict father, she married<br \/>\n        him in secret.<\/p>\n<p>    The caique discovered what his daughter had done, and mortally wounded to<br \/>\n    the depths of&nbsp; his heart, he swore revenge, and had his son-in-law secretly<br \/>\n    poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>    The beautiful young widow asked to move away from the palace. She traveled<br \/>\n    to the coast,&nbsp; intending to settled on the beach in front of the ocean,<br \/>\n    whose immensity would help her&nbsp; forget her loss.<\/p>\n<p>    But when she had barely arrived at Kuta-Kocha, near the heights of Huacllan,<br \/>\n    she felt a&nbsp; terrible pain in her heart. She became sick, and could not<br \/>\n    continue her travels. She remained&nbsp; their, and her servants built a<br \/>\n    beautiful palace, from whose roof one could contemplate the green llanura<br \/>\n    whose enchantment dissipated her sadness.<\/p>\n<p>    And time passed.<\/p>\n<p>    A powerful Inca who was traveling through the area to bring it into his civilzed<br \/>\n    reign, arrived&nbsp; at the palace of the sad princess. During the time he<br \/>\n    remained as her guest, she told him of&nbsp; her sickness. The generous ruler<br \/>\n    took pity on her, and promised to bring, from the distant&nbsp; land of Quito,<br \/>\n    a magical stone.<\/p>\n<p>    The king kept his promise. When he got back to Cuzco, and on the way to Kuta-Kocha,<br \/>\n    he&nbsp; left the miraculous stone in her garden. Upon leaving, he said:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Put a few small pieces in boiling water, and then drink it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>    Since that time, every time the pain and the sorrow tortured her, beautiful<br \/>\n    Kori drank the&nbsp; potion that the king had given her.<\/p>\n<p>    With the passing of the years, the prodigio appeared. The princess was cured.<\/p>\n<p>    And from the furthest corners of the land her subjects began to appear to<br \/>\n    ask for a small&nbsp; piece of the miraculous stone, to cure their sicknesses<br \/>\n    of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>    This stone still exists, although it is now quite small, for those who know<br \/>\n    of its existence still visit it, to chip off little pieces. <\/p>\n<p>Links to <a href=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/VillaMaria\/legends\/\">all ten of the Legends<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cold rainy night in Boston, Memorial Day around the corner though Spring hasn&#8217;t sprung, let alone Summer, it is nice to remember another world, in its way as different and as fantastic as Star Wars, but in reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/25\/more-legends-of-ancash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-screeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}