The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

.BooK II. Royal Commentariú. by this Name; but 1, who arri an Jndian borri, and therefore better acquairited with the Language than he, know rbát ~bey never tbok this name irito thei.t: Mourhs, but feldom, and when chey pid, ir was \;'\/ith great Veneration, howing tpeir Heads and Bodies, cafüng up rheir Eyes to Heaven; and then down ro rhe Earrh, lifüng their hands open as high ás their Shoulders; and .kiíling th{t Pi.ir, which were rhe common manifeíl:ations of Reverence and Adorarions, whicH were in ufe amongíl: che Inclff ancl his Peopje; thefe ; and fi,Jch like demoníl:rati- óns ofHemour they ufed when chey were forced to pronounce the word Paéhaca- mac; but the Name of che Sun they took in their mouths .more frequemly, as_ they díd al(o o( their Inca,s, and with lefs ceremony,_ .and of rheir CwactU, wbo were their Lords, wirh a more indifferent refpec1: : And bei~g asked, who this Pach'!'Camac was, they :mfwered; that it was he wlió .gave Life t<? the tlniverfe; fuftained and nourifhed al! thiags ; bur becau(e they <lid not fee hilJl , thJlYcould not know hirn ; and for thar reafón they ereél;~d not Temples to him, nor offered .Sacrifice, hewfoever they woríhipped in their Hearts, and eíl:eemed Pin1 for tht:' tinknown God. . . ..tluguftin de Carat'e, in his feco.nd Book and fifth Chaptet¡ t~p()rts, that Fath6r Pie.ente de Va/verde telling ~he K.ing Atahualpa , chat it was Chriíl: ©Llr. LQJ:fl';who' crearecl the World; he anfiv.ernd, that he )mew nothing of chat, bue he was fure that there was no other NelurHher ' but tbct Sun, whor:n they <!f}<rQmed co be a God, and the Eárth rheir Mother 5 and that Pach4calpqc had cr'eaced al! thjngs, &e: whence ir is evid{tnt, that the Jndiilns held our invifible Goíl to be the Creatour of. alL things. · . . . , This Truth which,the IndiA111 l\ad by che light ofNatlire di[rnvered, fh.e Devil Hmfolf, though the Father of Lyes, had mucBagainfr hisWill confeffed Ftnd con-. füm¡;d; for when he faw that our l-Ioly Gofpel was preached, and rhar many .l»diani were baptiied; he told fome of his Familiar's in that Vale, which is now. ,. :talled d1e.Valley of Pachtlfa_mac, (fo named from tha.t farr¡olis Temple which is~ ~here ded1cared to the Uríkn0wn God , ) that the God which the Spa,piards preached and he were the fame 5 _as Pedro de Cieca; and Geri>nimo Roman in theit. Writings _of che weft-Indie_s -report : Howfoevel.' chey are .miílaken where tQey, Jay that the IndiAn1 gave the name of PachacamtJ.c to the Devil, for whom they -have another Word, which is Cupay, which when1they Utt~r; ·they f pit, . with other ftgns of Deteíl:atiort. Notwithíl:anding this Enemy fo far in~ouaced him- felf amongíl: chefe Infidels, chac he caufed him(elf to be "'9rihipped by rhem by enteting in to all chofe things, which chey callea facred, or HoJy; for he fpake ro ~hern jn their Orades,. their Temples, and the (:orners of their ,Houfes, calling- iúmtelf by the Name of Pachacamac; and by this fobtilcy t_h~ Indiarfs w<:>rfhip- ped every thing chro~gh wh· ch t e Devil fpoke, bdiev1ng it ro be a Dé ty ; out. bad .they belíeved that it ' ·as che Cupay., or Devi:l, , whorn tbey heard, they: would certainly ha ve bu ·nt rhe things throúgh which he fpoke, as tbey now by God's Merey do, who harh gratioufly re:Veafod and álade himfelf known to them. . . • - 1 t HA P.,