Ollantay
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Ollantay is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 22, 2025 and August 25, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “his Ollantay -inspired transformation”; “the narrative of the Ollantay post”. It most often appears alongside ACX, ACX Grants, Andes.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 22, 2025
- Last seen: August 25, 2025
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- Andes (1 shared issues)
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- Anti (1 shared issues)
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- Anti-suyu (1 shared issues)
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- Antonio Arriaga (1 shared issues)
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- Antonio Valdez (1 shared issues)
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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.
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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1: Comments of the week: Garald is skeptical of the narrative of the Ollantay post [EDIT: Response from reviewer here]. And some more discussion of people being one-shotted by works of art: hottakergeneral claims that Hitler based his personal style, including the mustache, on the figure of Wotan in Franz Stuck’s “The Wild Chase”. Fact check: although Stuck’s Wotan looks eerily like Hitler, GPT-5 thinks any theory of casual resemblance is speculative and that there are other explanations for Hitler’s style.