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VI.
Royal
Commentaries.
This Temple of
Pachacllmac,
which
"'ciS
the onely pl4ce
fo
dedi~ated
in all
Pe–
ru,
was very magnificent both for rhe .fhucture and
for
the
ferv1~es
performed
there·
for
the
Yuncas
offei:ed many Sacrifices of BeaHs, and other thrngs; not ex–
empthtg the Bloud of Men, Vvomen a_nd Children,
whic~
they
ki~Jed
at their
principal Fefiivals, being praCl:i[ed
alfo m
many other Provmces, unr1ll reformed
by the Government of the
Incas;
and this
fhall
ferve at prefent
to
have fpoken
?f
Pachacamac,
intending to touch farrher thereupQn,
as
we
fhall
have occalion
m
the
occurrences
of
this
Hifl:ory.
·
.
The
Valley of
Rimac
lies four Leagues
to
the
·Norchward from
Pachacamac;
'Rimac
lignifies
fomething which (peaks, having
its
name from
a
certain Idol, of
the Figure of a Man, which fpake, and anfwered quefiions, like the Oracle of
.Apo/la
at
Delphos,
and feveral others
in
the World , by which the Devil deluded
the people
in
times
of the ancient Genrilifm.
This Idol was feared in
a
mo
ft
fumptuous Temple, though not
fo
magnificent
as
that of
Pachacamac,
to
which
the Great Lords of
Peru
either went in Perfon, or enquired by their Ambaffa.–
dours, ·of
all
important Affairs relating
to
their Provinces. The
THnctU
held this
Idol in
great
Veneration,
as
likewife did the
Incas,
after they had fubdued that
pleafant Valley where the
Spaniards
founded that City which they call the King's
City, or King's-Town? having had its
firfl:
Foundation begun on that day which we
celebrate
in
remembrance of our Saviour's firfl manifefiing himf&lf to the
Gentiles~
fo
that
Rimac
and
Lima,
or the King's-Town, is all one, bearing Three Crowns,
with a Star, for its Arms.
·
The
Spanifh
Hillorians confound the Temple of
Rimac
with
PachacamAc,
faying
that the Idol of
Pachacamac
'''as the [peaking
Oracle~
but this
is
but one of rhofe
many mifiakes of which, for want Gf knowledge in che propriety oftoot Tongue,
they have been guilty;
~nd
indeed the neighboured of chofe V allies, and vicinity
ofone of them
co
the other, being not above four-Leagues difiant, may make
their
Errour the more
tolerable.
And thus much !hall ferve to .fhew that clle (pea–
king Idol was
Rimac,
and not
Pachacamac;
with which let us return to our for-
mer purpofe.
.
Before the General
Capac Tupanqui
arrived with his
Army
at the Valley of
PA–
chacamac,
he difpatched after
nis
ufual Cufiome, his Summons to the King
Cuyf–
mancu,
requiring him
to
yield Obedience
to
the
Inca
Pachacutec,
and that he
fuould prepare to acknowledge and receive him for
his
fupreme Lord and Sove–
reign, and to obferve his Laws and Cufioms, and that renouncing all other Gods
and Idols, they fhould adore the Sun for the chief and principal God: Thefe
were the conditions which he offered to him, which if he refufed ro accept, he
was..refolved to make
War
upon him, and confirain him thereunto either by fair
means or foul,
by
gentle perfuafions, or ruder arguments of the
Sw~rd.
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