The curaca turned to his hearers, in fact subordinate, in an ancient quechua dialect, with inflections that recipients of the message had sometimes difficulty to decode. The beginning of his dissertation was kind of an update of issues that had been pending since the previous meeting, as if he followed an unwritten agenda. He later referred to the subject that everyone was waiting for. “The expedition that is currently working in the Huanuco is poking around in the bowels of the Pachamama and has already found some objects that belonged to our ancestors. So far they have found only deposits of seeds and other everyday items, but they have neither desecrated any of the important sites, nor do I think they will do so in the future, as there is no connection between the various systems of g

