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of the family. In New Granada we meet with the Muyscas of 

 Bogota, a sun worshipping race whose sohir hero, the god Pesca 

 or Bochica, is the Muskogulge Eefeekeesa and the Japanese 

 Jebisu or Zhizobogats. But their solar deity proper is Zuhe, 

 the same as the Huron louskeha and the Aleutan Aii;uo;ux. 



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They also worship Toca, the Huron Atahocan, and, perhaps, the 

 Kamtchatdale Hutka ; as well as Aghajun, the Koriak Anggan. 

 Their tradition of the deluge is well defined, and agrees with 

 that of the Kamtchatdales, Dacot--^hs, Iroquois, Cherokees, 

 Choctaws, Uches, Caddoes and Peruvians. The Muysca verb 

 ends in scua or suca, and is thus not unlike the Kadiak in ok or 

 tok. In the use of postpositions ; the order of the verb, as Ist^ 

 pronoun, 2nd. verbal root, 3rd. temporal index ; the preposition 

 of the accusative to the verb and of the genitive to its governing 

 noun : the Muysca completely accords with the Peninsular and 

 allied North American languages. For the agreement of its 

 vocabulary with those of the Peninsular, Dacotah, Iroquois, 

 Choctaw and Peruvian languages, I must refer to the compara- 

 tive tables in the Canadian Journal. More important than the 

 Muysca are the dialects of Peru, the Quichua, Quitena, Aymara, 

 Cayubaba, Sapibocono, Atacamena, &c., and they deserve more 

 than a passing notice. 



The Peruvians, one of the oldest and perhaps the most civi- 

 lized of native American peoples, have long been known as ^:)a>' 

 excellence the sun worshippers of America. The sun, Inti among 

 the Quichuas or Incas, is the same god as the Japanese Nitji, the 

 Loo-Choo Nitchi, the Iroquois Onteka, the Cherokee Anantoge, 

 the Choctaw Neetak, the Catawba Noteeh, the Adahi Nestach, 

 the Coco-Maricopa Nyatz, and the Araucanian Autu, Antaigh. 

 This name seems to have been the peculiar property of the Tu- 

 ranian worshippers of the solar orb. Another Peruvian god, like 

 Pesca or Bochica of the Muyscas the hero of a deluge, was 

 Apachic or Pachacamac, and in him we recognize the Muskogulge 

 Eefeekesa and the Japanese Jebisu. Eruchi was the Sapibocono, 

 and Huiracocha the Quichua war-god, and these again recall the 

 Iroquois Areskoui and the Koriak Arioski. The Peruvian Chin- 

 chas practised the artificial compression of the skull like the 

 Choctaws, Catawbas, Natchez and Koriaks. The Quichuas and 

 other Peruvian tribes embalmed their dead like the Ainos. The 

 umbrella was a mark of dignity in ancient Peru as in Japan. 

 The astronomical system of the Incas was virtually that of the 



