310 ARGUMENT AGAINST THE SUN BEING GOD. 



LIB. v. p or j n trueth it is a matter woorthy of consideration, to see 

 how they subiect themselves to such as instruct them in the 

 true way of life. There is nothing among all the creatures 

 more beautifull than the Sunne. which all the Gentiles did 

 commonly worship. A discreete captaine and good chris- 

 tian told me that he had with a good reason perswaded the 

 Indians that the Sunne was no god. He required the 

 Cacique or chief e Lord to give him an Indian that were 

 light, to carry him a letter ; which doone, he saide to the 

 Cacique, Tell me who is Lord and chiefe, either this Indian 

 that carries the letter, or thou that dost send him ? The 

 Cacique answered,, without doubt I am, for he dooth but 

 what I commaund him. Even so replied the Captaine, is it 

 of the Sunne we see, and the Creator of all things. For 

 that the Sunne is but a servant to the most high Lorde, 

 which, by his commaundement, runnes swiftly, giving light 

 to all nations. Thus thou seest it is against reason to yeeld 

 that honour to the Sunne which is due to the Creator and 

 Lord of all. The Captaine s reason pleased them all; and 

 the Cacique with his Indians sayde it was trueth, and they 

 were much pleased to vnderstand it. 



They report of one of the Kings Yncas, a man f a 

 sub till spirite, who, seeing that all his predecessors had 

 worshipped the Sunne, said that hee did not take the Sunne 

 to be God, neither could it be, for that God was a great 

 Lord, who with great quiet and leasure performeth his 

 workes, and that the Sunne doth never cease his course, 

 saying that the thing which laboured so much could not 

 sceme to be God. 1 Wherein hee spake truth. Even so, 

 when they shew the Indians their blind errors by lively and 

 plaine reasons, they are presently perswaded and yeelde 

 admirably to the trueth. 



1 Tliis was liuayna Ccapac. See G. de la Vega, ii, p. 446. 



