Condor Flying High

¿Tú viste a Coquena ? Yo nunca lo vide / pero sí mi agüelo, repuso el pastor / una vez oíle silbar solamente/ y en unos tolares, como a la oración.

"Have you ever seen Coquena? I never have, but my grandpa has" - said the shepherd. "Only once have I heard him wistle, near some bushes, late at night"

Coquena es enano; de vicuña lleva/ sombrero, escarpines, casaca y calzón,
/ gasta diminutas ojotas de duende,/
y diz que es de cholo la cara del dios.

He looks like a midget; he wares a hat, pumps, a shirt and trousers, all in vicuña wool. He wares little gnomic sandals, and his face, it is said, resembles that of a "cholo" god.

De todo ganado que pace en los cerros/
Coquena es oculto, celoso pastor;/
Si ves a lo lejos moverse las tropas,/
es porque invisible las arrea el dios.

He jealously guards all sorts of livestock
wandering around the hills. If you ever see a herd, in motion, away in the distance ... it's him, invisibly herding them, like a God

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