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Of the
Idolatry
of
the Second
Age, and the Original of
it.
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AT
which
we
call
the
fecond
Age,
and
the
Idolatry, whicli
was ufed in ir at that time, received
its
firfi
beginning
from the
Inca,
Manco Capac,
who
V\
as th€
firfr
that raifed
the
Monarchy
bf
the
Inc~,
who
were the Kings of
Peru,
and who
in
a direet
Line
reigned
for
the
fpace of
four
hunqred
Years,
though
Fa–
ther
Sias
Ya/era
will
have
it,
that
their Government Continued
hetWeen
five and
fix
hundred.
We have
a)ready declared the aCtions of
Maned
Capac,
how,
and
in
what manner
he
reduced
the
!ndians
to
live
in a
J?Olitical
:var
of
Society,
teaching
them
,to
fow
and plant,
to
build hou.fes, and
provide
all thmgs
conducing to Murnane
Life:
and
how
Mama Delio,
bis
Wife,
infiruCl:ed
the
Indian
Women
in
the art of
fpinning
and weaving, and all other
ways
of
good
Huf–
wifery:
We have declared alfo that
it
was this
Manco Capac
who
taught
them to
aaote
the Sun,
by
reprefenting
to
them the many benefits chat he had conferred
Qn
them,
faying that this
Pacba Chamac
(which fignifies as much as
the fufiainer
of
all things) had
in
vain exalted them above the Stars, whom
h~
had made .their
Servants,
if they
did
not advance
his
W
oriliip above
all
other
CreCKures,
and
had
ill
conferred
h1s
benefits on
them,
in
cafe they ibould
ftoop
to the mean Idolatr1
of low and bafe
thihg.5,
fach as
Toa~s
and
Frogs
and Lizards,
fotraking
che
fer–
\Tice of
that
true
Deity,
whofe Glory
and
Brightnefs fhuck
awe
atld
r€\7erence
tnt6'
all
CreatUres.
The
IndianJ,
convinced by thefe
arguments,
ctnd
mote by
the
fenfible benefics
eived, acknbwledged the Sun for their God, without affuming a Farhert or a.
other into fociecy with
him.
Their
kings
they
ever
fryled co
be
children of
the
Sun,
and defcended from Heav:en, and adored chem
with
as much Vene–
ration as the ancient Gentiles, fuch as
the
Greek!
and
Romans,
did
their
'f11pirer 1
Mars, 71enU4,
&c.
!bus the Idolatrous
Vv
odhip of the Sun; and of the
lnca1 .;
as
they
believed, defcended from him; prevailed ; and even co this
day
they ne·
ver name their Kings (the
lnctU)
but
with
wonderfull revernnce and adoration
7
fo
that
if
they
be ask,ed,
wpy
they worfhip thofe fur Gods whom they know
ta
be
but
Men, they will
prefently reply; that
it
is mte,
they
are ndw undeceivedt
and
can confider
them
n~
otherwife in reality than
as
Men;
yet
having receive<l
fo
much
good
and benefit from
them,
th€y cannot efieem th€m lefs than of
Di–
v~e
Race; and.
did
others appear
in thefe
days
equal or
'omparable
to
rhem
1
they
wowd
readily
perform
the
fame Hondurs
~nd
Adorations towards
them4
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