La Tirana

La Tirana is a town of dusty streets and adobe houses with a church and a piece of history as its only
attractions.

La Tirana is named after an Inca princess Huillac Ñusca. In 1535 Diego de Almagro, a Spanish
conquistador, marched south from Cusco to conquer Chile. Only 500 Spaniards where willing to go with
him to conquer these lands that they thought would be poor. So Diego de Almagro took with him ten
thousand conquered Incas including the Inca princess and an Inca Prince. The party included, unknown
to Almagro, a number of highly trained Wilkas (Inca Warriors) from the Inca Royal Army.

The group reached the Atacama where the princess slipped away to freedom with the prince and 100
Wilka warriors. The princess organised the group into a sophisticated army and over the next four years
waged war on the occupying Spaniards. She declared her mission was “Death to all Spaniards and to all
Amerindians baptised by them”. Her brutality earned her the name “La Tirana” or The Tyrant.

Some years later La Tirana’s army attacked their enemy and captured a prisoner, Don Vasco de
Almeyda, a Portuguese miner. As the legend goes, simply to look at him was to fall in love with him, and
La Tirana did. However, according to everything she stood for, this foreigner had to die, so she devised a
plan, an excuse, to keep the prisoner alive and not loose the faith of her army. She consulted the stars
and the gods and claimed they had ordered her to keep the prisoner alive until four moons had passed.
The ruse worked and her army followed her command. For the next four months, La Tirana and Don
Vasco spent every day together, and she began to neglect her people and duties, this caused suspicion
among the Wilkas who kept a secret watch on her.

When the fourth month ended, La Tirana asked her loved one if they would be reunited in heaven for
eternity if she too were a Christian. Don Vasco replied they would and she begged to be baptised. Don
Vasco agreed and began to baptise her, but before he could finish, the Wilkas burst through the door and
showered the couple with arrows.

As La Tirana lay dieing she cried, “I am dying happy, as I am sure that after my death my soul will
ascend to God’s throne. All that I ask is that my after my death, you will bury me next to my lover and
place a cross over our grave”.

Ten years later Padre Antonio Rondon arrived in the area to evangelise the local Amerindians, and to his
surprise he discovered a simple cross over a grave at the spot where La Tirana had died.

I Underline the irregular and regularpast verb .Clasify them into, regular and
irregular verb.
Match the images to the underlined verbs
II Answer the next question.
1.- What are the main characters?
2.-Who was the conquistador?
3.-Which was the Incas comunity’s name?
4.-Who was Vasco de Almeyda?
5.-What did La Tirana do to foring people?

III Why do legends and myths are important to our country?

IV NOW you have to elaborate an original comic related to La Tirana legend.