Ollantay

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Ollantay is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 23, 2025 and August 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Finalists are Ollantay”; “Ollantay is a three-act play written in Quechua”; “he invited José Gabriel … to a performance of a play … Valdez told … Ollantay was a Castilian version of a Quechua play”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, Alpha School, Andes.

Metadata

• Category: Books
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: June 23, 2025
• Last seen: August 22, 2025

Appears In

• Open Thread 387
• Your Review: Ollantay

Related Pages

• • ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
• • Alpha School (1 shared issues)
• • Andes (1 shared issues)
• • Anti (1 shared issues)
• • Anti-suyu (1 shared issues)
• • Antonio Arriaga (1 shared issues)
• • Antonio Valdez (1 shared issues)
• • Argentina (1 shared issues)
• • Astralcodexten (1 shared issues)
• • Bechdel test (1 shared issues)
• • bishop of Cuzco (1 shared issues)
• • Bishop’s Castle (1 shared issues)

External Links

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• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-ollantay
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-ollantay/comment/147965657
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 387

June 23, 2025 · Original source

3: Thank you to everyone who voted for finalists in this year’s Nonbook Review Contest. All entries among the top ten best-ranked reviews became automatic finalists, and I also added two more from the 10-25 tier that voters or I especially liked. Honorable mentions were others from the 10-25 tier that I liked a lot. Finalists are Alpha School, Dementia, Islamic Geometric Patterns, Joan of Arc, Mashed Potatoes, Men, Ollantay, Phase I Research, Synaptic Plasticity, The ACX Commentariat, The Internet That Might Have Been, and The Russo-Ukrainian War. Honorable Mentions are at least Bishop's Castle, Bukele, Elon Musk's Algorithm, JFK Conspiracies, Martial Arts, Miniatur Wunderland, School (Review 1 by DK), and Watergate. I may promote some honorables to finalists depending on reader tolerance or unexpected opportunities. I will give you finer-grained score information after the contest ends. First finalist post is planned for this Friday.

Your Review: Ollantay

August 22, 2025 · Original source

Ollantay is a three-act play written in Quechua, an indigenous language of the South American Andes. It was first performed in Peru around 1775. Since the mid-1800s it’s been performed more often, and nowadays it’s pretty easy to find some company in Peru doing it. If nothing else, it’s popular in Peruvian high schools as a way to get students to connect with Quechua history. It’s not a particularly long play; a full performance of Ollantay takes around an hour.1

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Also, nobody knows where Ollantay was written, when it was written, or who wrote it. And its first documented performance led directly to upwards of a hundred thousand deaths.

Macbeth has killed at most fifty people,2 and yet it routinely tops listicles of “deadliest plays”. I’m here to propose that Ollantay take its place.

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• Books: O
• Open Thread 387
• Your Review: Ollantay