Guaman Poma De Ayala's Tocay Capac

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“In this ethnographic self-analysis Guaman Poma anticipates the stance of several modern Peruvian writers”

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s in his work “Tocay Capac” explains in details the story of the first Inca. With some short stories, the readers learn all about various aspects of the Inca culture, the colonial times and the Spanish conquest. As the quote above shows, Poma de Ayala wrote about different people, where one of them was Tocay Capac. He was the first Inca King, who came from Adam and Eve, “…came from the aforementioned legitimate descendants of Adam and Eve and the progeny of Noah…”(pg.32). Tocay, Ynga and Pinau were the first authentic human beings that represented Incas.
In my opinion, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Tocay