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Com1}2entarief.
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the
lbtanACm
and
Picunna,
(which is a Mount.ain Goat, from whence they have
the Bezar-fione,)
as
alfo Partridges, and
all fores
of other Fowl; and though
rhe
havock which the
Spaniard.t
have made hath defl:royed all the Game
in
thofe
parts, yet
in
the place
theFeof
they have planted Viues, and Fruit-trees,
and
Su..
gar-canes, which is the improvement they have made
in
that quarcer.
The other
Mountain to the Weft is not
fo
high, or lofty, being not above .a League
in
the
afcent. At the foot thereof runs
the
plentifull River of
Tucay,
deep, and not ra–
pid, but paffing wirh a fmooth
and
gentle Current, and therefore abounds with
great quantities of excellent
fi(h ,
and
is
frequented with .Hearns, Wild-Ducks
and all forts of Water-fowl. Thofe
that'
ere
fick at
Co:teo,
which
is
a
cold
and
fuarp
Air,
and therefore not
fo
proper for
infirm
Bodies ufually reforted thither
to
recover their healths; fo that there
is
now no
Spaniard
who lives at
C0:teo,
and
efieemed a Man of an Eftate, but who hath a Country-houfe, or fome po!feffion
in that Valley.
This
lnca
Piracocha
had a particular delight and affeCtion for that
place~
and therefore built feveral Houfes tliere, both for ofientation, and for plea-
fure.
·
,
He enlarged the Temple
of
the Sun,
both
in
the Building,
and alfo
in
the
num–
ber
of
Servants
and Officers, endowing·
it
with a Revenue agreeable
ro the
En–
largement. And
as
all
the
lnctU
conceived
a
particular Veneratfon, and Devotion
for
that Temple, fo
PirAcocha
f~emed
more fenfibly affeeted from
his
religious
fer–
vour to that Spirit which appeared to
him.
•
CH AP.
XXVIII.
7he
N1111ze
which
Viracocha
gave to
bis
Eldefi
Son; and
.
his Prophecy concerning the lnvafion of the
Spaniards.
"'tT·TE
have feen already by what hath preceded, in what manner
Piracocha
Raf.
V V
fed
fome
years,
and in what tranquillity and profpericy he governed
his
Empire. We are now to
f
peak of his Children and Family;
his
Eloeft Son
was
born
of
Coya MamaR.untu,
who
was his
Siller, and true.and lawful! Wife; he
was
at
fuft
called
T itu Manco Capac,
though afterwards by
the
lafi
Will
and Appoint–
ment of his Father, his Name was changed to
Pqchacutec,
'
hicb
fignifies
as much
as one who fubverts the World, or turns
it
upfide down; and though
it
was
com–
monly taken in the worH fen[e, for fome alteration from bad to worfe,_yer
it
is
faid he was
fo
affell:ed with this Word, that he was defirous to have called
him–
felf by that
ame; hut
in
regard that the Name of
Piracocha
was
fo,
dilated over
all
Countties, and the Voices of the people
fo
accufiomed to
it;
that. he could
not affume
that
Appellation
to
himfelf, yet he was dBfrrous to communicate
it
to
his on, being, as he believed, a means to keep alive the memory of the Appa–
rition, and the renowned Aetions of his Father.
Acofta
in
the 20th Chap. of his
6th
Book
faich, "
That the people were
fo
much fcandalized at the Name of
Piracoch11,
" \ hich
this
Inca
took to
hlmfelf,
becaufe
it
as
the proper name ofGod, that
' ' he ' as forced to clear himfelf of this prophanation, by faying that the
Spirit
" which appeared to him in
bis
Dream, nad commanded
him
to take that Name
" and
Title
u
on
himfelf: And
that the
I nca PachaCHti,
who fucceeded him,
was
'' a great ouldier and Politician, having invented many fuperilitious
rites~
which
" he introduced into the
W
orfhip of their Religion;
''t.rhich
are the word with
hich
A
cofta
concludes that Chaprer: All which
is
fo
confirmation of what I
ha e faid, namely, that a
i!ion appeared to
him
in
his
Dream; that he rook
the
ame of that Apparition, and-that aften ards he gave the Name of
P11chac~
t ee
ro
the on who
fu
ceeded him.
The
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