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II.
.
Royal C
ommentariú.
. .. _2-9
by this Name; but I, who arri an
Jndian
boro, .and tqerefore better acquairited
with the Language than he, know rbát ~bey néver tbok this name
iiito
theit:
Mouths, but feldom, and when they µid, ic was with greac Veneration, 6-owing
their Heads and Bodies, cafüµg up their Eyes to Heaven; and then down to the
Earch, lifting rheir hands open as high ás their Shoulders; and _kiíli~g che Pür,
which were che common manifeíl:ations of Reverence and Adorauons; whicli
were in ufe amongíl: rhe
JncM
anq his Peop)e; thefe ; and f1,1ch like demoníl:rati–
óns ofHemour rhey ufed when they were forced
to
pronounce the word
Paéh11ca-
111.1c;
but the Name of the Sun they took in their mouths .more frequemly,
as
they
díd alío of their
IncM,
and with lefs ceremony,_ánd of cheir
CwacM,
who
were their Lords, wich a more indifferenr refpecl:: And bein'g asked, who chis
Pach~amac
was, they :mfwered; thac it was he who gave
Life
to
the,tlniveríe;
'fwtained and nourifhed ali thi0gs; bue becau(e they <lid not
(ee
hi01, th,ey could
not
kn.owhirii;
and for thac reaforn chey ereél;ed not Temples
to'
hirn,
nor offered
Sacrifice, h(')wfcéver they woríh~pped
in
their Reares, and e{leem~d
bin1 for
th<tÍ
unknown God.
.
.
.
Augttftin de
Carate,
in
his f€eortd
Book
and íifth
Chapteti t<;p(:)ns,
that Father
Pie.ente de Palverde
telling che
K.ing
Atillh11alpa
,
that it was Chrift our.Lord';
who'
crearecl the World; he anfivernd, that he knew nothing
of
rhat, but he was fure
that
there·was no other NourHher'
but tbt:t
Sun, whor:n they tr/}<rGmed.
to
be a
God,
and the
Earih
their Mother5 and that
Pacb4cawac
had cfraced
al!
thtngs,
&e:
whence it
is
evidenr, that the
·ftzdiilns
held our invi!ible God ro be the Creatour
of
.alL
things.
.
.
:This
Trtith which.the
India~1
had
by
che light
of
Nat~re d~[covered,
the
Devil
·hunfelf,
though the Facher of Lyes, had much agamíl:
hisW11l
confeffed ,and
con-.
fümi:::d;
for wheq he faw thar our 1-Ioly Gofpel
vyas
preached, and chat rnan,y
.J»dian1
were bapilied; he told fome of his Familiars in
that Vale,
whicb is now.
.• .called che_Valley of
Pachafa_mac,
(fo
named frorn thac farr¡oús
_Temple
which
is;
' there
dedícated
to
the
Unkn0wn
G0d,)
that: che Gocl wbICh ihe
Spa,riiards
preached and he were che fame , _as
Pedro de Cfrca,
ánd
<icrbnimo
Roman
fo
cheit,
Writings of che
weft-Jndie_s
..report: Howfoevel' they are _mHtaken wbere they,
.lay that the
Indian1
gave the name of
Pachacam~c
to che Devil, ,for whom they
-have anocher Word, which 1s
Cupay,
which when,they ucc~r; ,they
f
pie, . wirh
orher
figos
of
Dereíl:atioii, Notwithíl:anding chis E~my
fo
far
initnuaced him–
felf amongíl: chefe Infidels, thac he caufed himfelf ro be w9ríhipped
bY.
chem by
énceting imo
all
chofe thirigs; whid1 they callea facred, or Holy,, for he fpake co
thern in their Orades,, rheir Temples, and che <;:orners of their Houfes, calling–
iútnielf
by che Name of
¡iachacamac;
and by this fobtilcy' t_h~
lndia'f!s
w<:>rílüp–
ped every chiryg_ thro14gh
"Y9·
ch
t
e Devil fpok<r. bel_iev,ing
i~
ro be
¡;
Deicy ; tmc.
had they beheved that
1t ,
·as che
Cupay,
or Devil, . whorn rhey hea,rg, they:
.wou1d certainly have bumt rhe thir¡gs throúgh which he fp-oke , as chey now
by God's Merey do, who hath g,ratiouf}y revea1ed and álade himfolf known
to
them.
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