THE DEATH OF ATAHUALPA

After agreeing to be baptised to escape death by burning (they burned him afterwords anyway), Atahualpa was garotted, as Don Francisco Atahualpa, on July 26, 1533.

Like a cloud, the wiraqochas,

The white men,

Demanding gold,

Invades us.

After seizing

Our father Inca,

After deceiving him,

They put him to death.

He with the heart of a puma,

The adroitness of a fox,

They killed

As if he were a llama.

Hail fell,

Lightning struck,

The sun sank,

Night came.

And in their terror,

The elders

And the people

Buried themselves alive.

Quechua elegy "Death of Atahualpa" composed in the Quito region.  

Quote from the book: "Stolen Continents, The Indian Story" by Ronald Wright.