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Royal Commentarie.r.
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the
Ayaviri,
and thofe of
Pucara,
'
1
as
fent from Heav n, as a ju.dgment for
~ving ref
ill:ed the
Children
of the Sun ; and therefore \\ ith unan mous co,nfent
they declared themfi lves Vaffals of the
Inca,
that they \ ould adore
the
Sq1'_:
and obferve and keep
11
thofe Laws
and
Ordinances
which
e
fhoul<l impori
upon them; and
ith
this intention rhey went out to meet the
Inca,
and
rece1ve4
him
with
Acclamations,
and
ith new Songs, and Mufick,
which
they
had
fr~
med and compofed for this occafion
,
The
Inca
received their
Curaca&
with many kind and obliging Expreffio,ns;
and
to evidence the efieem·he had of them, he befiowed on every one of them
g~r
ments which belonged
to
his
own Perfon, with other Prefents,
ery
acceptable;
and in procefs of time afterwards thefe two People, and their Pofierity,
\"eJe
ever
highly favoured
by
the
InctU,
efpecially thofe of
H atun Colla,
both f9r
tl\e
readinefs
with
which they embraced the
Vv
orfhip of the Sun, and for their dO{ji–
ble and gentle N ature, \
hich
encouraged the
lncM
to build magnificent
Tell;lpl~
·n
their Counrrey, and found Monafieries for Virgins, wbich were
~tter
ot
high admiration amongft the
Indians.
The
Col/JU
confifl: of many
and
divers Nations, and report that theit;
full:
~C?cf
ren
Hfuedfrom the great Lake
7'.ticaca,
which they efieemed to be their Moihef;
and before the times of the
Inca.r,
amongfi other
Gods~
they off
ered acrifices
this Lake upon the Banks of it. Some of them report that
the~
are.Qtpro~'"'"~·""~
from a great Fountain, others that their Ancefiours iffued from
Ca
es, and
the hol–
low ofRocks, and accordingly at certain feafons they offered
th
ir
acrifices
tot~~~~
ochers
that
they originally iflued frorp a certain River, and therefoi;-e
held
that
th~
ifh
of
it
were facred,
and
that
it was
a
fin to eat them.
In
this
m~n~r fo~e
adore
one Deity, and Come another, howfoever becau!e that that People abounded muc .
in
flocks of Sheep, they had one God common to them all, which was
a \
hite
Ram, faying, that there was a great fheep
in
the higher World,
for fo
they
call
Heaven, which had a particular care of them, giving them a greater increafe and
number of Sheep, than
to
any other of the neighbouring People of
Peru ;
and for
that reafon they offered up Lambs, and the
fat
ofMutton
to
th. Sheep-faced Deity.
But this God, and
all
others, the
Inca
took from them, all
ing them no other
but the Sun, whom he encharged and commanded them·without any other Rival
to adore
and
worfhip; befides which he altered that infamous Cufiome of
Dilfo–
lurenefs and Incontinence amongfi
fin~le
Women,
to '
horn it
was la
wfull, and
a
!audible quality
co
be common\ hores before their Marriage, though
after–
wards they were obliged to be true and faithfull to one Husband. But
as
to thofe
Fables which relate the Original of thefe People, rhe
l nctU
took no pains or care
to confute them; for
as
they were obliged to believe the defcendence ofthe
IncM
from the Sun;
fo
the
IncM
in like manner would not feem to difapprove
the
ables and Reports they made of
their
own Original.
Having
laid
thefe foundations of Government and Religion the
Incd
returned
again
to
Co~co,
giving a fiop
for
the prefent to
his
Conquefis and Proceeding ; for.
it
feemed to be the mofi reafonable Policy to give time and
f
pace
for
thefe new
ubje&
to cafie the
f
weetm;fs and lenity of the
Inca,
and by their own
e~~ri·
ence to make report of it, and publifh
it
to
the neighbouring
arioo. ,
iat
fo
they might be more eafily induced
to
embrace the like advantage : rather than
over wering all by cruel and bafiy conquelts, their Government fbould appear
tyrann
·cal, and
partaking of
an ambitious ancl cov tous S
iric.
C. HAP