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Royal
Commentarie-s.
BooK
I.
Curaca
and
is
the fame which
Cacique
figcrlfies
in
~he
Language of
Cu!Ja
f
and
Sanllo Domingo,
which
is
as
much
as
a Ruler over Sub1e&: and
th~fe
we:e cn?fea
for their
meritS ·
for
when
any
one was
more gentle, affable, pious, mgeruous
and more
zealo~s
for the publick good than others, he was prefencly advanced to
Government and
to
be an Infiruetor of the ignorant
Indian1,
who
obeY.edhim
with
as
much reverence, ·
as
Children do their Parents; and till thefe
things could
be put into execution,
and
till
the
Earth
could produce thefe
fruits,
which by
la–
bour
and art of Cultivation might
be
expetted, a general fiore of Provifions
were colleeted into a common place, to be difiributed agreeable
to
the neceffi...
ties and
largenefs of
Families.
And that they
might
not live without Religion,
he prefcribed the Rites and Ceremonies for their Iaolatry : he appointed out the
place and defign where
and
how to ere& a Temple to the Sun, that they
might
facrifice co
him;
for
in
regard they efi:eemed
him
the great God of all, by whore
heat
and
light they lived, ·the Fields produced their Fruits, and their Cattle
mul–
tiplied,
and
that they received
a
thouYand favours
and
benefits from
him;
it
was
but natural reafon for them to acknowledge thefe benefits, and efpecially they
efieemed themfelves obliged to render fervice and adoration
co
the Sun andMoon;
for
having fent their own Children to them, who had reduced them from
a Life
of Beafis, to the refent condition and fiace of humane Reafon.
It was 1ikewife
ordained,
a a
H
ufe iliould
be
built for Virgins dedicated to the Sun, and
that
the
fame
fuo d be
poffeffed
by
none, but
fucfi as
were of the Royal Bloud
and
Family,
and
fupp ie
from thence,
fo
foon as the
number of the Royal Race
was
fufficiently increa ed. All which he ordained and appointed to
his
People,
that
they fhotild inviola
ly
ob[erve
in
gratefull acknowledgment of the benefits recei–
ved; promifing on th other fide, that
in
reward thereof they
might expeet
per–
petual additions ofgood
to
them from the bleffings of the Sun who had revealed
thefe
f
ecrets, and fent
his
Meifengers to the
Indian1
to
infuuet
and guide them
in
the ways ofWifedoin :
all
which ll1atter ,
ana
much more, the poor
Indians
be–
lieved, and by tradition have conf erved to thefe our days ; it being the main
point
of their belief, that the
Inca
was a Child of the Sun; of which and of
fudi like
fables they greatly boafl:, and
that
none but fuch as was of Divine progeny was
able to have diretted or prefcribed
things
of fuch fublime
and elevated an under.,
fiandiog, as
thefe.
C
a·
A · P. .
XIII.
Of the Titles,
and Dignities which the
Inca
for difiin[/ion.
fak,e,
and to procure
greater
Honour
and Reverence
he–
flowed on his
own
Family.
THE
lnca,
Manco Capac,
having employed
himfelf for
many years
in
the
mat
4
.
ters before related, for the good and benefit of
his
Subje& and
·
vh~g
thatd thereby he had produced in their minds a real fenfe ofgratitude
cg:~~d;
im,
an
a
readlnefs to yield to
him
and
his,
who were Children of th
s
due Hon<?ur and Reverence; he judged
it
requifite for the more effeau:l ·
un,
aP.
fic?n of this
A_
we and Refpelt,
to
dignifie himfelf, and chofe defcended
fr:h~e
-
with noble_T1rles, and
Ha~its
different from ochers. Wherefore firfi he
d
d,
that
after his
Example
all his
Pofterity fhould go with their Heads
fhor
or
er~
'
fuely onhe dlock of
Hait:;
but this
~1earing
was
performed with
grea~<lillf~~i~y
r
they
a.
not
y~t
arrived
to the
mvention of
Sciffors ,
but with
a
lhar
·
,
c~t
the Harr, as well as they were able; whence
it
was that a certain rounp
flint,
d
co one o rn
choolfdlow , w·ch whom he was
~aught
to write
~d ;e;d~:
that