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CUZCO:

THE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OF PERU

'Dhe traditiion referred to,

aJLd

corroborated by Riiva Agüero,

can be attribuited to spite-work

·o.f

four bl'O'tiher itribes or of the

same ethnie origin dispUJting the dooninion o<f Cuzco, resulting

victoriouis the descendents of the legendary Man·co Kcca.pacc, as

might be said are pra.ctically all founders

O'.f

pr·ehistoric periode.

These conflicts must have been

l()f

lon.g dumtion.

THE INCAS. -

Gar. de loa Vega, a native of Cuwo, of mixed

blood, (known as Inca on account of his family descendency)

autll1entica~1y

gives in order the suooession of fourteen Incaic

Emperors dating from the mi.ddle of the llth Century, the begin·

mng of the Incaic epoch, up

tl(e micld1·e of the 16th Century, the

time

o.f

the Cot1Jquest

. Num

erous hi·storical writers have condirmed

bi& reco;rds,

altho

ugh

ma.ny

diifer as to the number •an·d order of

the Cuzco

in.gs

. Till

e non·

existen<Cie

o;f

written documenta confü-

ming the

~ ~

eriod results hat at his

~me

there is soone

douM, par

q~r

garding the respective Emperors, exeepting

however historical acts coneerning the lll..st four Incas:-Thúpaqc,

Inoa Yupa.Jlq:Ui Huaina K\'Clápaoc •a!l(,d Huáiscar

i Ata,huallpa;

thi.s latter owmg

o the faet that the invention of the Span·ish

conque

originated in America at the time these Monarch& ruled

füe EmpiT . Fol' this reason the !first writers ami conquerors were

probably in a position to give more approximate versions as well

as the narrativa of the Amauttas (or learned) and the Kj1pu-

Ca:máyocc (ruler among the Qjipus).

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A theoretical ¡peoi¡:le, worsh:Vppers o.f the Sun allld oth'8r heavenly

bodies, as well as of the a,ncient d eities Con Huüra·cchocha and

Pachaeámacc; conquering and eommun•h1tic;

absolutely monar–

quistic and paternal -

the Incas off Cuzco underitcmk so many

hazards and dominated so many peo;ples by their imiconsistency,

patience, just and ñrm rule, veneration and respet,

t!hiat

they

must have been of a raee of p eople of superior des·cendency.

CUZCO -

INCAIC PERIOD -

Ouzco,

.to

the a.ncient Peru·

vians, was a o¡:face to be idolized, even ais a divinity. WJlen making

a vuit to the city they would at ifirst sight 04' it prostirate theuv

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