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BooK
VI.
RO)'dl
Commen_tariet.
·
their Trees
root~d
up, that fo no fteps or marks !Uight appear ofa!ly thing which had
been
built,
or planted by the hands
~f
Sodomites, and that their
memor~,
as
:vell
as
heir,aCl:ions, might be aboli!hed ;
~ith
them they
~efiroyed
both
the~
W
1ves
~od
Children, which feverity, thdugh_
1t
may feem u_n1ufi,
was
yet
~n
evidence of
that abhorrence which the
IncM
conceived
ag~infi
this unnatural Crnne..
.
Some time afcer this Conquefi: the
Incan-
~ngs
honoured, and
~nobled
this
val-
,
ley of
Chincba,
with a famous :remple
dedi~ated
to the Sun, wrtI: a Houfe alfo
for
the Seleet Virgins ;
it
contameci about thrrcy
tboufan~
fouls, bemg o_ne of the
moft pleafant And delightfull
Vallies
of
Pe--l'u.
·The Achons and Expl01ts of the
Inca
p
achacutec
were many and various, though
his.
~onquefis
for die I?ofi part
were performed in the fame-manner ; :vherefore
~o
divert
t~e
.Reader
!':.'Hh
fo~e
varieties we <hall now intermix our D.lfcourfe with two prmc1pal Felhvals which
the
Inca/
celebrated with the greatell: folemnities , and then we
!hall
return again
to the Life and
Atchievemen~
of this King.
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C HA P.
xx.
Of
the principal Feflival of the Sun; and in
.what
11zanner
they prepared themfelves for the Celebration
of
it.
.
T
HE
principal Fefiival was called
Raymi,
which founds, or at leafis fignifies
as
#
much witli them
asPa(cha,
(which with us in Engli{h
isEafter)
amongll: the
four FelHvals, celebrated by the
JncM
in the <::icy of
Cou:o,
which was the
Metr~
polis
of their Religion, (as
Rome
is to
us)
none was obferved with that folemnity,
.as this
w
bich lhey called
Tntip
Raymi,
held in the month of
rune,
in honour of the
Sun, foon after the Summer Solfiice; and if they attributed this name of
Raymi
to
any other Feaft,
it
was in reference, or as it depended on this chief
Fe~ival.
·
This Solemnity was performed to the Sun, under Notion ofthe Supreme, Sole
and Univerfal God, by virtue of whore Heat and Light all living Creatures
were
generated and fufiained.
At.
which
alk>
they commemorated their firft Father
In–
ca. Manco Capac,
and
Coya
Mama Occlo,
his Wife
and Sifter, owning and acknow-
·ledging them to be defcended from the Sun, and fent
by
him into the
World
for
the common benefit ofMankind. For which important Reafons this Fefiival be–
ing
efieemed the molt folemn , all the principal Captains and Commanders of
tbe Army, and
Curaca1
or Lords of Provinces, aifembled themfelves at
Couo
to
celebrate
this
Feaft ; not that it was of Precept or Injunetion, but out of mere ·
!>evotion to the·Sun, and refpeet to the
I nca.
In cafe any
Curaca
or Officer were
hindred by Age,
or
Infirmity, or by any diftant Employment in fervice of che
Inca,
he tlien fent his
~on,
or his Brother, or fome orher Relation, to
affifl:
at this
Funetion
in
his
Name and Place ; hor
did
the
Inca
efteem himfelf excu ed from
this perfonal attendance, unlelS the War, or remote Vi.fits of his Kingdoms obli–
ged him
U>
be abfent.
At
the full: Ceremonies the King, as High-:Priefr, did always ·adrninifier; for
though
there
was
another High.Priell:, of the fame legitimate Bloud, being
a
Bro–
~er
or Uncle of the
Inca,
to whom it properly belonged at other times to offi–
ciate;
yet
~~i~be~g
the chief
of
all
the Fefiivals, was ever graced and honoured
by the admnumauon of the
Inca,
who was the firfi and eldefi Child of the Sun.
.The
Curacas
were
h~ited
and dreffed at this time in the finell: Cloths and
gay–
eues
tpat they could
bn?g ;
forne wore Garments plated
with
Gold and Silver> ·
adormng themfelves
with
Garlands.' or Crowns of Gold , platted over their
'Y
reaths;
fom~
of them appeared
m
Lions Skins, having their Heads and
Bo–
dies
covered with them, ana thefe were
fuch,
who boafied themfelves to be
de..
fcended
from
that generous Creature.
f
f
Sucli
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.
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