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Viracocha, to the Sunnc, the Starres, and the rest of their Lin - 

 Idolls, was to open their hands, and to make a certaine 

 sound with their mouthes, like people that kissed, and to 

 aske that which every one desired in offering his sacrifices, 

 yet was there great difference betwixt the words they vsed 

 in speaking to the great Ticciviracocha, 1 to whom they did 

 attribute the chcefe power and commandement over all 

 things, and those they vsed to others, the which every one 

 did worship privately in his house, as Gods or particular 

 Lords, saying that they were their intercessors to this great 

 Ticciviracocha. This maner of worship, opening the hands, 

 and as it were kissing, hath something like to that which 

 lob had in horror, as fit for Idolaters, saying, &quot; If I have 

 kissed my hands with my mouth, beholding the Sunne 

 when it shines, or the Moone when it is light, the which is 

 a great iniquitie, and to deny the most great God.&quot; 



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The Divell hath not bene contented to make these blinde 

 Indians to worshippe the Sunne, Moone, Starres, Earth 

 and Sea, and many other general 1 things in nature, but hee 

 hath passed on further, giving them for God, and making 

 them subiect to base and abiect tilings, and for the must 

 part, filthy and infamous. No man needes to woonder at 

 this barbarous blindnes, if hee remember what the Apostle Uom - 

 speaketh of Wise men and Philosophers. That having 

 knowne God, they did not glorifie him, nor give him thankes 

 as to their God, but they were lost in their own imagina 

 tions and conceipts, and their hearts were hardened in their 

 follies, and they have changed the glory and deity of the 



1 &quot; Aticsi-Uiracocha&quot;, according to Molina. From &quot;Atic&quot;. a Con 

 queror. 



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