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Royal Commentaries.
BeoK
V.
" Woriliip, and to fuare a
prop~rtion
of the •veneration which
·wa5
owing to
1
" him the onely God, unto the Sun, to the Thunder,
and
other
Creatures
who
' ' had no other Being
1
V ertue and Beauty, but fuch as they received from
him •
'' and
that
therefore be
was
now come to make known to
him , that
his
Habita~
cc
tion
was
in
Heaven where he
was
W
orfhipped under the Title of
Yiracocha pa..
''
chayachachic,
whkh fignifies the Univerfal
Creatour
_of all things.
f\.nd
thac
'' they might
be
aifured
of
~he
trUth hereof, and that
it
was no Dream,
or
idle
''
fancy~
lie
promifed to raife him People and
Armies
by
his
Omnipotent power;
~'
and
that
though the
Chanca>
were numerous and viet rious, yet he would
fend
'' him invifible Troops, and
fi
h
as
fhould not be known from whence they came
' ' !hould
aid
and fuccour him againft
bis
Enemies. With
this
affurance and belief
" he railed his
Men,
which flocked to
him
in
thofe Numbers, that
he
obtained
" a Vietory ; and afterwards depofing both his Father, and his Elder Brother,
he
cc
made himfelf .!\bfolute and Sovereign Prince of the Empire. From the time
«
of
which
Viltoty
he Efiablifhed
a
Law,
thanYiracocha
iliould be Worfbipped
'' and Adored as die fole and Supreme Lord of the Univerfe ; and
that
the Ima–
,, ges of the Sun andThunder iliould bow before
his
Idol, and doe him reverence
5
'' and. from that time afterwards the Image of
Yiracocha
was
exalted above rhofe
cc
of the--Sun and the Thunder, and the other Minor
Guaca1,
or Little Deities.
" And though
this
I nca Tup1enqui
did
~ffign,
and fet out Lands and Flocks for the
-
cc
maintenance of the Sun and Thunder ; yet he made no Efiablifhment for the
cc
nracocha,
by reafon that he being tne--t:ln-Werfal LGrd, and Creatour of all, con;
cc
tained All-fufficiency within himfelf, having no need of fupplies from the Crea..
.
~'
tures which his
Po~
er had made.
'c
After this Battel was ended with Signal Vietory over the
Chanca1,
he decla–
cc
red to
his
Souldiers, that
it
,was not by their Force and Valour that their Ene–
" mies were fubdued, but it was by the Aid and Affillence of Numbers of Men
<c
with great Beards, which the
Viracocha
had fent to fight for them, and that they
cc
were
invifib~--to-~11,
buc to himfelf: And that now their Work being finifhed,
'
'' they were eturned again to their former invifible Beings, and Nature ofStones:
'' Howfoev r, it feemed neither decent, nor convenient
to
omit due acknowledg-
" ments, e en to thofe infenfible Beings, which none but he could know; and
" therefor.
going into the Mountains, he
caft
up heaps of Stones, which he cul-
cc
led an
feparated with
his
own hands from the refi, fetting them up For
Guacaf,
c,
or
mi-gods, commanding Adoration and Sacrifices to be offered co them,
! '
calli g them by the Name of
PururaucaJ,
the which they carried with them to
'' theWars with great devotion. And Cuch credit did this Fable
gain
in
their
;J
~
nds,
that by force of this fuperlHtious irnpreffioo, this
Inca
obtained many
u
eat and
fi
nal Vietories. Thus far are the Words of
.Acofta,
which agree
in
the
,
fi:ance
wit~
what we have before related ; but as to what he alledges concern–
ing the Image of
Viracocha,
that it was exalted above the Idol of the Sun ;
it
was
a novelty, and new manner of Worfhip introduced by the
Indians,
in
compliance
- with the
Spaniards :
For it
is
a miftake to conceive, that they apprehended any no–
tion of the Name of God, with a peculiar refpeCl: of his Supreme and
Ornpipo–
tent Effence ., for they had no conceit of
any
but of nvo Deities, one was the
invifible and \lnknown, which was the
Pachacamac;
the other was the Sun, which
was clear and apparent to the fight of the Univerfe; but as to
Viracocha,
and
other
IncM,
they
efieerned them as Children, and Off.fpring of the Sun.
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CH AP.