FELIPE HUAMAN POMA DE AYALA (WAMAN PUMA)

This young man in the center of the picture, with Spanish clothing, it's me, Felipe Huanman Poma de Ayala. My name is half Indian and half Spanish, just like myself. My mother was a great grand child of the tenth Inca, he who trusted his star and began the long journey with a balsa raft. (Tupac Inca Yupanqui)  My father was the Spanish man Martin de Ayala. I put on Spanish clothing when I attended a Spanish school, but it was not easy to be an Indian, and from the way the Spanish treated the Indians , I decided to write this book. I have spoken to so many native people as possible to insure I could put down all they know about the way of the Incas, and it is exactly what I have done. You will see how the Inca society, culture, dailylife was, and also their religious ways, the golden plates they wore in their ears and their worshipping.

 ( Ojeones, was a name the Spanish gave the Inca out of the large gold earrings or plugs they had hanging from their ears, and it was not used by the Inca themselves, but maybe a word adapted which it is more a disrespectful term.)  Felipe's father send the scripts to King Philip III of Spain 15th of may, 1587.

 From the  "The first new chronicle and good government"  Waman Puma (De Ayala):

" Atawallpa Inca went from the baths to the city and court of Cajamarca in all his majesty and surrounded by his captains.--- and on the throne called USNU, which is at the middle of the public square, Atawallpa sat. And then Don Francisco Pizarro began to tell him, through the interpreter Felipe (a Wankawillka native) that he was the messenger and ambassador of a great lord and that he was his friend and he had come only to tell him this, -And the Inca replied with majesty that it might be true he (Pizzaro) had come from a great lord, since he had come from so far a land.....but that he(Atawallpa) was also a great lord in his kingdom, and did not need such friends. After this reply, Friar Vicente approached, holding in his right hand a cross and in his left hand a breviary, and he said to Inca Atawallpa that he was the messenger and ambassador of an even greater lord and great friend of God (the pope), and that the Inca should become his friend and adore the cross and believe in the gospel of God, and worship nothing else because all else was foolishness. And Atawallpa Inca answered that he worshipped no one but the Sun, which never dies, and the shrines and other gods according to his law.  And the Inca asked the Friar Vicente who had told him such things, and Friar Vicente responded: "-The book of the Gospels."  And Atawallpa said: "- Give me the book that it may speak to me."  And so, he took the book and began to leaf through it's pages. And the Inca said:" - Why does it not speak to me? This book tells me nothing!" And Atawallpa Inca threw the book from his hands."

His 1200 page long document contains 400 pendrawn images, the only known in this document which he may have made between 1613-1615 and it's named "The first new chronicle and good government".   The manuscripts are now to be found at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen ( of all places...).