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Royal
Commemaries.
BooK
III.
CH A P.
XXIII.
Of the Pla;es where t~ey affered Sac~ifice, and where they
put off the~~ Shoes befare they entred into the Temple;
as alfo of the Fountains which helonged to
it.
T
HE }:)laces wher~
they
hurned their Sacrifices were appointed accordiug co
die
folemnities of ther'1 ; for fome were offered in one open fqliare, and
fome in orhers; for rhere W!::re many .ha'l!owed places belonging
to
the Temple
in which the
I~c,u
~rdered che celebr~tion of th~ Sacrifi~es, according as rheir plea~
fuue and devotion diteél:ed. Thac general Sacnfice wh1ch was made ar rhe greac
Feftival of che Sun, called
Raymí,
was off~ed in t~e open _Markec-place of che
City
~
ocher Feafis of leffer note were cé1ebrated m an open Court befare che
Temple,·whete all the P~ople anti Nations of divers Provinces, ,belonging to the
Dominioh of che Emfire,. aífembltro together to keep che Holy-day with Dances
and Soogs, aod other Recreations; but chey could not pafs beyond rhac place
into che body of che Temple, nor remain chere wicb Spoes on t!1eir F:er? becaufe
,the gro1md \,Vas hallowed, being wichin che confin{'.S, and faoél:ified ltm1ts of che
Temple ; che which we obferve here, to denote how far thofe boundaries ex–
tended.
The~e-w€'.re ·three principal Sn·eets, which ran Northward from che Markec.:::
,place to che Templ<:r, one of wpich paífed by the brook fide, and anocher, which
in
my time they called che Pri[on-füeet, becauíe che
Spaniards
made cheir
Prifon
in
ir, (
which, as I am informed , is fince changed;) a third Jed from a comer
of the Market-place
to
the Temple. Time is another Streec to che Eafiward of
theíe ch1:ee, wqich lefds al[o ro che fame place, and which is
~w
called che
Street offü.
Auftin;
tnrough all which four Screers there was a way to che
Tem–
ple ~ b~ che princip~l StEeec, and moíl: dir_eél: way rh_id1er, was that which we call
the Street
of
tbe Pnfon; though che
Ind,ans
called 1t che Streer of che Sun be–
c;aüfe that- that being'Íf\ che middle, and in che íl:reigbceíl: line of
-ali
che reft,' was
the common paífa-gé by which they wenr, aod carried al! their Offerings and Sa–
cr-iRces
ro che Temple. There was alío another Stree1c which ran
Eaíl:
and Weíl:
and troífed che ocher four memioned Streets, which was che place determioed
for them, where to leave their Shoes; and chough they inteoded not to go
fo
far as the Temple, yet that ground being within che Verge of ir, no perfon could
país it, unlefs de[calced, and with bare feet paid his reverence ro che hallowed
Earrh, from which place are above cwo hundred paces
to
the Gate of .che
Temple.
·--n-uno retúrrt no,Xr to che Ornaments of che Temple ; there were five Foun:
taios ofWater, which rao from divers places through Pipes ofGold; rheCi–
fierns were fome of Stone, and others of Gold and Silver, in which they waíhed
their Sacrifices, as che Solemnity of the Fefüval appoimed.
In
my thne chere
was bue one of cho[e Founraios remaining, which íerved che Garden of
~
Con–
vent wirh Water; the orhers vvere !oíl:, either for wanc of drawing or opening,
or leaq(ing-;- anq...t~is is very probabl~, becauíe to my knowledgd, that which
belbngéd to ·die Cónvent was alfo
lo.íl: for
fix
or feven momhs for wanr of
which V\Tacer, the whole Garden was dryed up, and withered c~ che great
la–
mentation of che Convenr, and che whole City, nor could any
'1ndian
underfiand
how thac Water came to fail, or ro what place it took its comfe.
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