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quiera el velo de ignorancia que cubre la era
prepizarroniana, la cultura
y
los hechos que–
se
desarrollaron
en lA-s
regiones
cis,
trans
e
interandinas.
Esto
que aquí hemoa escrito no es un es–
turlio definí ti
vo,
cotno ya se ha anotado ante–
rionnente,
es única1nente una orientación
prelin1inar que
he1nos
creído
por
convenieu te
dar a
los
que nos signen , para buscar nuevas
rutas
y
trabajar con
~nayor
seriedad a base
de observaciones propias en el terreno, sin
hacerse sugestionar por los relatos de cronis·
rnoon was he1d by the Peruvians to
by
the
sister-wife
of
the
sun.
Secondly,
the
In<lians greatly
fear
the rein–
bow ' vhen seet:a in the \Vest, an the armorial ensing of
the Incas vvas the rain bo,v. In the thit-d place, refe–
rring to their superstitions connected vvith the Pleiades;
Dobrizhoffor vvrites:
"They (
tbe Peruvians) may
ha
ve
taught the in habitants (of Chaco) a religious observanw
ce of
the
Pleiades".
The Indians assert
that
many years ago une of
their large tri bes was ru led
by
a woman, the last of
her farnily, ·and that this family originaly carne from
far beyond the mounhiins in the North-West; It ap–
pears that she was treated w ith
great
respect, and she
rode on,
a
chestnut horsei led by hvo men on foot. I
ha–
ve never
heard
of any other case in the least similat" to
this-that
is, of any of
their
Chiefs ever assuming such
regal state, or of ru1ing over more than one clan of a
tribe, except in the case of a war-chief in time of
war.