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and Aaron, to be equall vnto them. AVe reade iu tlie Booke 

 of indues, of tliut Micas, Priest of the value Idoll, which 

 vsed the same ornaments which were vsed iu the Tabernacle 

 of the true God, as the Epliod, the Seraphin, and other 

 things. There is scarce any thing instituted by lesus 

 Christ our Saviour in his Lawe of his Gospel, the which 

 the Divull hath not counterfeited in some sort, and carried 

 to his Gentiles, as may be scene in reading that which we 

 hold for certaine, by the report of men worthie of credite, 

 of the customes and ceremonies of the Indians, whereof we 

 will treate in this Booke. 



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Beginning then with their Temples, even as the great 

 God would have a huu.se dedicated, where his holy name 

 might be honoured, and that it should be particularly vowed 

 to his service ; even so the Devil, by his wicked practises, 

 perswaded Inlidells to build him prowd Temples, and par 

 ticular Oratories and Sanctuaries. In every Province of 

 Peru, there was one principal! Guaca, 1 or house of adoration; 

 and besides it, tin-re was one generall throughout all the 

 Kingdome of the Yncas ; amongst the which there hath 

 beene two famous and notable, the one which they called 

 Pachacauiac, is foure leagues from Lima, whereat this day 

 they see the rumos of a most ancient and great building, 

 out of the which Francisco I i/.arro ami his people drew in- j 

 finite treasure, of vessell and pottos of gold and silver, 

 which they brought when they tooke the Ynca Atahualpa. 

 There are certaino memories and discourses which say, 

 that in this Temple the Divell did speake visibly, and 

 gave answers by his Oracle, and that sometimes they did 

 see a spotted snake ; and it was a tiling very common and 



