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BooK
Ill.
Royal
Commentaries.
•
CH AP.
XXI.
Of
the
Cloifiers
of the
Temple,
and of
the fe-yeral
Cha111-
bers of the
Mootz
and
Stars, Thunder
and Lightning,
and of the Rain-how,
F
Rom the Temple there
is
a paifage into the Cloill:ers, which are encompaf–
fed with four Walls, ofle of which is the Wall of the
Temp~e
:
the top
of
this
Cloill:er
is
fpread with a Cieling of Gold , of about a Yard
m
breadth ,
and was
the Ornament and Crown aloft ; but the
Spaniards_
after~·a~ds
def
poil~d
the Roof of the: Gold , and
in
place and memory
the~eof la~d
a
C1ehng
of
white
Plafier; the which, when
I
departed thence, was
fiill
white and
fre~, an~
the
Walls found and fianding as formerly. The Provoft, or Mafier of this Cloiller,
had five large Chambers fquare allowed him for his
L~dgings,
not. contiguous,
or
\oyning one to the other, but feparate and apart, bemg
~overed
m
form of a
Pyramid and which made the other three Walls of the Cloill:er.
One
~f
thefe Cquare Chambers was dedicated co the
Mo~n~
whom they llyled
the Wife of che Sun, and therefore
~as
neareft to the pnnopal Chapel of
the
Temple·
all
the fides within, as alfo the Doors were Plated with
ilver,
for
the
better correfpondence
and
refemblance
with
the colour of
the
Moon , whofe
Image was
alfo
ered:ed
in
Silver, with the face of a Woman, and placed in the
fame manner as that of the
Sun.
Into this Chamber they
did
ufually enter to
make their vifits to the Moon, and recommend themfelves
to
her favour ;
for
tliat {he being the Siller and Wife of the Sun, wa confequendy the Mocher of
the
Inca.1
,
and of
all
their generation ;
\\ herefore they called
her
Mam-aquilla,
which fignifies
as
much
as
Mother-Moon, to
horn they offered Sacrifices
as
they did
to
the Sun. On each fide of
thi
Image they
laced the Bodies of the
dead Qieens, according to their Order and
eniority. Ooely
Mama
Ocllo,
who
was the Mother of
Hsupna
Capac,
had
the chief place, being feated nearefi; and
with
her face juft oppofite
to
the
Moon;
in regard, chat having been the Mother
of
a
Son
fo
e~cellent
and famous, did feem to ha\e merited the primary place of
Honour.
The Chamber
next
hereunto
"as
dedicated to
PenU&
the Evening- car , and
the other
f
even Stars, and to
all
the other
tars in general. The tar
Vemu
they
called
Chafca,
which
is
as much as to fay, long and curled Locks; they
named
this Star the Page of the un, becaufe
it
always attended on
him,
going fome–
times
before, and fometimes after
him~
for the fe\fen
tars they entertained
a
particular refpett, becaufe of the firangene!S of their pofition, and their equal
proportion : Thefe Stars they fanfied to be the Attendants and Hand-maids to
the Moon; and for that reafon they lodged them
in
the Lobby, or Chamber next
to her,
that fo
they might be near, and the place more commodious for their fer–
vice; for they were of opinion, that the Stars were Attendants belonging
to
the
Court of the Moon, and not of the Sun, becaufe they appeared in the Night
onely, and vani01ed
fo
foon
a
the Morning dawned, and the Sun arofe.
This Chamber had its Walls and Doors all plated with Silver like
that
of
the
Moon ; the Roof
was
painted like a Starry Sky,
full
of
St~rs
of che greater and
leffer Magnitude.
The next Chamber hereunto was dedicated to the Lightning, Thunder and
Thunder-bolt,
\\:h~ch ~hree
they comprehended under one common Name of
Yllapa,
and the difhnchon of
.them
was clenoted by the AdjunCl: Verb
:
As for
~xa~ple;
when they fay, Did
Y.o~
fee the
Tllapa?
then they mean Lightning;
or did you hear the
Tllapa
?
then
it
1S
Thunder · or did you fee where the
Y/Lapa
fell, or the damage
it
did
?
then they underftai{d the Thunder-bolt.
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