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PIETSCHMANN.-The

Ch1·onicle of

Huc611WJJ~

Ponw.

512

Hua?"i

man in prayer, calling :

Pachacctmct, mctypvm canqui,

Creator of the world,

where art thou

He also mentions the standard prayer of this periocl in a more

complete form,

"Supreme utmost Huiracocha, wherever thou mayest be, whether

in heaven, whether in this world, whether in the world beneath, whether in the

utmost world, Creator of this world, where thou mayest be, oh hear me !"

After the

Huct?'i

generation follows the third age, the age of the

Pu1·on ?'una.

Pu1·on ntna

means common men, men living in regions or in conditions that lack

culture.

The fourth generation is that of the

A uca ru,na,

warriors," a generation living

in constant warfare, constructing strongholcls called

pucctra.

Huaman Poma

asserts that in battle these warriors were praying for victory, crying : ' How long,

Creator of the world, mighty Lord, shall I call

Thou woulclst not be God the

Lord, wouldst be blind, that thou shoulclst not look hither ! Help me, Lord ancl

F-ather!"

The chronology of these four ages is as follows :-

Hua?'i H16i1'acocha nma,

800

years;

Hucwi nmcb,

1,300

years ;

P1t1'on r1mct,

1,100

years·;

Auca ?'una,

2,100

years; total,

5,300

years.

Then comes a qtV,te new periocl that encls with the conquest of Pern ·by the

Spaniarcls, the Inca periocl.

Like Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Salcamayhua, the

Colla chief, Huamau Poma, though a cleciclecl aclmirer of the orcler that reignecl in

the empire of the great conquerors, is by no means a partisan of the sovereigns of

Cuzco. Their reign was preceded, he tells us, by that of the

Capcw ynga Toca.y

capac Pinctu capac,

who was the first to claim bis .origin from the famous birth–

grotto of the Inca tribes, the Tamputoco of Pacaritampu ; the first also to venerate

Huanacauri as bis gocl, ancl to call himself "Son of . the Sun, child of the Moon,

brother of the Morning-star." Manco Capac, the founcler of the dynasty of Cuzco–

we are told-was

antig7tallcpacapaccM'inwc,

that is, " the illegitimate offspring of a

witch of the Ancles." Her name was Uaco, ancl she was the inventress of the whole

idolatry spread over Peru. With the aicl of a nurse, callecl Pilleo Sisa, she

brought up her son in concealment in the interior of the Tampntoco. Afterwarcls

she macle him

capcw incct,

sovereign of Cuzco, ancl herself asstm1ecl the rank of

queen ancl the title Mama Uaco Coya.

The portraits of the twelve Incas of Cuzco ancl of their legitimate wives, thc

Coyas, are a series of particular interest. There is no cloubt that Huaman Poma has

taken his information about the appearance of these royal personages from ancient ·

pictures he has hacl the opportunity of stuclying.

For though he himself employs

no colours at all, he always mentions the colour of the

llaut1{,8,

garments, aud so on.

About Manco Capac, for instance, he says :-

.Mango

Manco

and

his

capac

ynga,

el p1·irne1·

pacúre

eje los diclws

Capac

Inca,

the first

father

of tbe said

pluma

de q1titasol,

JI su orexa de o1·o fono,

feather

as parasol,· and pure gold in his ears,

,yngas,

tenia

su llautu 1te1·de,

incas,

wore

a green llautu,

masca paycha

the

masca paycha

1tayoc tica,

kuayoc tica,