Guaman Skyfall – Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
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Guaman Skyfall is the “Temple Guard” of the Seven Stabs of the Knife Temple. He is also the Wand and Deck Recipe Vendor in Azteca.
Guaman is also the person who teaches your wizard the transformation words Tecuauh Laquepeh. Without these words you would not be able to transform and make your way to the Twin Giants.
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535 – after 1616), also known as Huamán Poma or Wamán Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish after their conquest. Today, Guamán Poma is noted for his illustrated chronicle, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.
The son of a noble family from the central southern Peruvian province of Lucanas located in the modern day department of Ayacucho, he was a direct descendant of the eminent indigenous conqueror and ruler Huaman-Chava-Ayauca Yarovilca-Huanuco, Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala was a fluent speaker of several Quechua and Aru dialects, who probably learned the Spanish language as a child or adolescent. He went on to become literate in the language, although he did not achieve a perfect grasp of Spanish grammar. He described himself as “eighty years of age” in his 1615 manuscript, leading many to deduce that he was born in the year 1535, after the 1533 Spanish conquest of Peru. It seems that he used the figure “80” as a metaphor for old age, however, and many other references in his text indicate a possible birthdate of 1550 or shortly thereafter.
Guaman’s name means “Falcon or Eagle” or “Aguila” when translated into English and Spanish respectively. At the time, a Falcon, had the meaning of a representation of a “Supreme Existence”. Someone, with the “designation” of a “Falcon” had the highest regards within the Inca and predesecing cultures. Poma’s name meant “Puma” in Quechua dialect. In modern Quechua orthography, it would be spelled Waman Puma, and it is sometimes listed as such.
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