304 PERUVIAN DEITIES. 



LIB. v. moone, starres, sea, and land. The Huacas, or Oratories, 

 ~~ which the Yncas Lords of Peru had in greatest reverence 

 next to Viracocha and the sunne, was the thunder, which 

 they called by three divers names, Chuquilla, Catuilla, and 

 Intiillapa, 1 supposing it to bee a man in heaven, with a sling 

 and a mace, and that it is in his power to cause raine, haile, 

 thunder, and all the rest that appertaines to the region of 

 the aire, where the cloudes engender. It was a Huaca 

 (for so they called the Oratories) generall to all the 

 Indians of Peru, offering vnto him many sacrifices ; and in 

 Cuzco, which is the Qourt and Metropolitane Cittie, they 

 did sacrifice children vnto him, as to the Sunne. They did 

 worship these three, Viracocha, the Sunne, and Thunder, 

 after another maner than all the rest, as Polo 2 writes, who 

 had made triall thereof, they did put as it were a gauntlet 

 or glove vpon their hands when they did lift them vp to 

 worshippe them. They did worshippe the earfch, which 

 they called Pachaniama, as the Ancients did the goddesse 

 Tellus ; and the sea likewise, which they call Mamacocha, 

 as the Ancients worshipped Thetis or Neptune. More 

 over, they did worship the rainebow, which were the armes 

 and blazons of the Ynca, with two snakes stretched out 

 on either side. Amongst the starres they all did com 

 monly worship that which they called Colca, and we heere 

 the little goats. 3 They did attribute divers offices to divers 

 starres, and those which had neede of their favour did 

 worship them, as the shepheard did sacrifice to a star 

 which they called vrcuchillay, which they holde to be a 

 sheepe of divers colours, having the care to preserve their 

 cattell. It is understood to be that which the Astronomers 

 call Lyra. These shepheards worshippe two other starres, 

 which walke neere vnto them, they call them Catuchillay 



Yllapa is thunder in Quichua. Chuqui-ylla was the name of the 

 God of Thunder. Ynti-yllapa, the Sun s thunder. 



2 Polo de Ondegardo. 3 The Plaiadcs. 



