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Sol'' leads directly to the Ccoricancha or Templo del Sol (Convent

and Temple of .Santo Domingo). Through it the priests and

worshippers made s<>lemn proeessions towa,rds the Templo del Sol to

mate ritual .sacriñces a.fter leavin.g the ¡place of w.o:rship to the

Sun in the Gran Plaza tle Huaccai Pata, where the Inca took tha

first libations ·<>f the sacred liquot (chicha).

is said that througb

an elegantly earved tube the liquor crume by drops to the Plaza.

This street Was traversed at right anglas by others to the east,

thereiby pl!l!Cing it in eommuni<lation with the su

burbs on both

sides of the

Río

Huata!Ilay. Many orf the old streets have disap–

pea,red and others have been r-erformed. El Kkicllu de Loreto

one of the rare examples

oif

an Incaic Street. At one entrance,

decorated and about the m.i!d'<lle of the block, there can lbe seen a

decoration of a serpent. This is called Afarus, a totemic animal

respectad by the ancient Perµvians. By sorne

t.he

Palace

w~s

called

A·maru Oahcha (cerco de la

~erpienit~).

THE OATHEDÉAL:-

To the ea:st

the Plaza.

oecupíes tho

l!lpOt

formerly calle.i

the Palace of ·the !nea Hüha. Ococha (Quishuar Cancha), and

within there remains no

vestí.ge

of the p.a¡st Incaic origin. Alfonso

de Mesa a,cquireá. the proiperty un•der the Spanish allotment, from

whom .Hishop Solano, accordin.g to ithe records of Cuzco, purchased

it at a price of

2,800

pesos1 Po:pe Paulo III, by papal bul'l dated

January

8, 1536,

raised the degreo of the then iglesia to that of

a Cathedral, and on Septemiber 4,

1538,

the first Bishop, Padre

Valverde, <'Jomipleted the ceremonias. Until the year

1560

th1i

temple was in poor circumsta.nces and wit·hout :furnishings. On