Abstract

This article presents a set of andean texts, in visual media and in songs of memory, about Manco Inka’ uprising in Cuzco and the subsequent period in Vilcabamba, with the death of several of the inkas. It is suggested that these materials show two moments in the elaboration of stories about these events. The first moment is contemporary to the events, while the second, later moment is part of an Andean memory. The texts circulated in the Andean systems of communication and show important degrees of discursive autonomy. They also reveal the tensions between the different existing factions.