Calancha, Antonio de la

He was the son of the Andalusian owner of the encomienda , captain Francisco de la Calancha and Dona Maria de Benavides. He refused to follow in the footsteps of his father to enter the religious Order of the Augustinians in the city of Chukisaka . Then he moved to study in Lima , where he received a Doctor of Theology degree from the University of San Marcos and became one of the most famous preachers of his time.

He was the secretary of the province, Rector of the College of San Ildefonso. During the devastating earthquake in Trujillo on February 14, 1619, he headed the monastery of the city, after which he became a prior .

Antonio de la Calancha wrote in his “ Cronica moralizada ” ( 1639 ) that the kipu were conveyed using proper identifiers with proper names and provincial names . He also gave an example of a very complex conceptual structure for the phrase:

... As for Mancocapacus, who was the first King Inga, in this land there were no Kings, no rulers, no cult, no worship, and that in the fourth year of his reign he subdued ten Provinces, and that he conquered some due to the death of his enemies , in what war three thousand of them died, and that in these booties he seized one thousand pounds of gold and thirty thousand - silver, and that, in gratitude for the victory, he arranged such and such a celebration to the Sun.

- Antonio de la Calancha. Moral chronicle of the Order of St. Augustine in Peru. Volume 1., p. 176

Antonio de la Calancha gave the only known decryption of building a bale precisely by this phrase, having described in detail which threads, what color, how many nodes were located.

• Crónica moralizada del Orden de San Agustin en el Peru ", Volume 1 (1638)
• Crónica moralizada del Orden de San Agustin en el Peru ", Volume 2 (1653)
• Latin translation of his Chronicles (1651)
• De los Varones ilustres del Orden de S. Agustin.
• De Immaculatae Virginis Mariae Conceptionis Certitudine "(Lima, 1629)

After studying Theology, he achieved that he was sent to go round (twice in his life) Upper Peru (present Bolivia ) and Lower Peru, and this allowed him to put together a huge amount of factual material for his Moral Chronicle of the Order of San Augustine in Peru ( Crónica moralizada de la orden de San Agustín en el Perú ), the first volume of which was published in Barcelona in 1631 (or 1638 ), which was soon translated into Latin (Brullius in 1651 ) and into French. The second volume, which remained incomplete, appeared in Lima in 1663 . This work contains a lot of data on religion, customs, customs of the Indians of Peru and Bolivia, on geography, theology, and is one of the most important concerning the origin of the Indians, their history. True, he was not always critical of the collected material, following the spirit of his time, although he carefully and consistently selected historical information. His work is saturated with gongorisms .

He knew Quechua well, but his etymology of many words of this language is rather doubtful. He re-read famous chronicles ( Polo de Ondegardo , Balboa , Avendaño , Jesuits of Teruel , Vazquez and Arriaga ), unpublished manuscripts , collected folk superstitions and customs.

Kalancha established the similarity of Indians and Mongoloids (Tatars), but deduced the migration of Asians through the prism of biblical information, such extravagant and naive, as well as Montesinos . Like other authors, he leads the beginning of the history of the Indians to the era of ailu and barbarism, when there was no aristocracy, but democracy existed. Numerous tales and legends are collected in his chronicle; he carefully studied the gods, religious traditions, languages, and messages about idols. All this is of great interest, but all the information is scattered in a mess and very often intertwined with the religious teachings and retreats of the author himself.

Father Kalancha died in Lima on the morning of March 1, 1654 .

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• Antonio de la Calancha. Moral chronicle of the Order of St. Augustine in Peru. Volume 1. (neopr.) . Archived on January 8, 2013. (Spanish)
• Antonio de la Calancha. Moral chronicle of the Order of St. Augustine in Peru. Volume 2. (Spanish)
• Antonio de la Calancha. Moral chronicle of the Order of St. Augustine in Peru. Volume 3. (neopr.) . Archived July 10, 2012. (Spanish)
• Antonio de la Calancha. Moral chronicle of the Order of St. Augustine in Peru. Volume 4. (neopr.) . Archived July 14, 2012. (Spanish)
• A. Skromnitsky. List of historians and chroniclers of the XVI-XVII centuries in South America. Biography. Bibliography. Sources. (unspecified) . Archived December 4, 2012.