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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
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that being called by the Sun, he was now going to refi_with
fi!m,
~hat
they iliould
live in Peace and Unity together, and that he
be~oklin~
their
a6!1~:ms
from_
Hea...
ven would take care to favour and fuccour them m their exrremmes and difirefS.
i-Ia~ing
uttered rhefe,
af?d
other fayings o_f
like
nature,
Manco Capac
dyed,
leavin_g
the Prince
Sinchi Roca,
his eldefr Son, which he had by
Coya/Y.fama Oello Huaco 1
hiS
Wife
and Siller
to be
lus
Heir and Succeffour. Thofe Sons
and
Daughters
, hich remained,'befides the Prince, married one
with the
other;
for
they took
great care
to
preferve that bloud which they
fabulrn.~fly
?eµeved
to
proceed from
the Sun clear and unmixed, becaufe they e!leemed
it
D1vme, and
4
was not to
be
defiled
~ith
any other humane mixture, though
it
were
with tnofe chief
and
principal Lords, whom they termed
CuractU.
The
Inca, Sinchi Roca
1
married with
Mama
Oelto,
or
Mama Cora
(as
fome
will
have
it)
his
eldeft Siller, afrer the Example of his Father, and
his
Grandfather
the Sun, who according
to
their Heathenifh Doorine, married
with
his
Siller
the Moon.
this
Marriage
as concluded not onely for confervation of the :aloud
in
i
pure Chanel, but like\ ife thac the Inheritance , which came as well
by
the Mother as the Father, might equally defcend to both Sexes. This Marriage
in fuch proximity ofBloud, they report, was a Command of
t11e
Sun, but iliac
no Brother could
marry
with the
Siller
1
except onely the Prince and Heir? for
in
all others this nearnefS
wa.s
forbidden, the which was a rule always obferved, as
we iliall find
in
the fequel of chis Hifiory.
. The death of the
Inca, Manco Capac,
was greatly lamented
by
his
Subje&
5
his
funeral rites were obferved, and celebrated for feveral Months;
his
Body was
embalmed, that they might conferve
it
by
them, and nor loofe the
fight
and pre–
fence of
it;
for they adored
him
for a
Go~
and Child of
the
Sun,
fo
that
they
facrificed heep and Lambs , tame Conies, Birds and Corn to him , confeffing
him
to be Lord and Authour of all thofe good things which they enioyed.
What
the
Original of this
Manco
Capac
might
be ,
as far as I can
gads
by the nature
and temper of
this
People, he muft nave been fome
Indian
,
of a more elevated
Underfianding and Prudence than ordinary, and one who had infirueted them
in
the way of living, and carrying a fubtile manner of deportment towards them
had
perfuaded them that he proceeded from the Sun, and was come from Heaven;
and that
his
Father had fent him to infl:ruet and befl:ow benefits upon them.
And
to
g.ain a greater
belie~ an~
credit amongfi: them, he
habi~e~
himfelf in a different
fafh1on ro them, lugg111g
his
Ears to fuch a le:11gch, as 1s mcredible
to
any but
thofe, \ ho have feen them, as I have done. Nor
i
it
frrange, that this ignorant
and brutifh People fhould be induced to believe his Genealogy to have been de–
rived
from
the Sun, finc;e
w~
have the examples in Hiftory of a
m~re
refined
People,
wh?
t~ught
the Doctrine
of
Demons, .believing Men ofWit, and
Art,
and .Magnarum1ty, to have been the Sons of
[upite~,
and <?ther Gods; and having
rece1ved good and benefits from them, and obfervmg their Aetions
to
correfpond
ith their Words, have readily after their death beftowed a place on them in
l-Ieaven
and without much difficulty have been perfoaded ever after to adore
them for Deities, giving th€m a iliare of
W
orfhlp with their Gods.
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