326 TEMPLE OF CUZCO. 



LIB. v. approved at the Indies, that the Devill spake and answered 

 in these false Sanctuaries, deceiving this miserable people. 

 But where the Gospel is entred, and the Crosse of Christ 

 planted, the father of lies is become mute,, as Plutarch writes 

 tract lib&amp;gt;de ^ k* s ^ me &quot;Cur cessaverit Pithias foiidere oracula&quot;: and 

 apoi pro lustine Martir treates amply of the silence which Christ 

 imposed to devills, which spake by Idolls, as it had been 

 before much prophecied of in the holy Scripture. The 

 maner which the Infidel Ministers and Enchanters had to 

 consult with their gods, was as the Devill had taught them. 

 It was commonly in the night they entred backward to their 

 idoll, and so went bending their bodies and head, after an 

 vglie maner, and so they consulted with him. The answer 

 he made, was commonly like vnto a fearefull hissing, or to 

 a gnashing which did terrific them ; and all that he did ad 

 vertise or command them, was but the way to their perdi 

 tion and ruine. There are few of these Oracles found now, 

 through the mercy of God, and great powre of lesus 

 Christ. There hath beene in Peru another Temple and 

 Oratorio, most esteemed, which was in the Cittie of Cusco, 

 where at this day is the rnonasterie of Santo Domingo. We 

 may see it hath been a goodly arid a stately worke by the 

 pavement and stones of the building, which remaine to this 

 / day. This Temple was like to the Pantheon of the liomaris, 

 for that it was the house and dwelling of all the gods ; for 

 the Kings Yncas did there behold the gods of all the 

 Nations and provinces they had conquered, every. Idoll 

 having his private place, whither they of that Province 

 came to worship it with an excessive charge of things 

 which they brought for his service. And thereby they 

 supposed to keep safely in obedience those Provinces which 

 they had conquered, holding their gods as it were in hostage. 



I In this same house was the Punchao, 1 which was an Idoll of 

 the Sunnc, of most fine gold, wrought with great riches of 

 1 Punchau, the clay; hence the Sun. 



