354 THE PERUVIAN FEAST OF RAYMI. 



LlB v - Spaniards in his language, &quot;Knightes, they have slaine me,&quot; 

 the which did greatly moove our men to horror and pittie. 

 It is no incredible thing that having his heart pulled out 

 hee might speake, seeing that Galen reports that it hath 

 often chanced in the sacrifice of beasts, after the heart hath 

 Gaien., lib. been drawne out and cast vpon the altar the beasts have 



11, de Hip. 



ph?cJ laton&amp;lt; breathed; yea, they did bray and cry out alowde, and some 

 times did runne. Leaving this question how this might bee 

 in nature, I will follow my purpose, which is to shew how 

 much these barbarous people did now abhorre this insuport- 

 able slaverie they had to that infernall murthering, and how 

 great the mercy of the Lord hath beene vnto them, impart 

 ing his most sweete and agreeable law. 



CHAP. xxin. How the Divell hath laboured to imitate and 

 counterfaito the Sacraments of the holy Church. 



That which is most admirable in the hatred and presump 

 tion of Sathan is, that he hath not onely counterfaited in 

 idolatry and sacrifices but also in certaine ceremonies our 

 sacraments, which lesus Christ our Lord hath instituted 

 and the holy Church doth vse, having especially pretended 

 to imitate in some sort the Sacrament of the Communion, 

 which is the most high and divine of all others, for the great 

 error of Infidells which proceeded in this maner. In the 

 first moneth, which in Peru they called Rayrne 1 and answer- 

 eth to our December, they made a most solemne feast called 

 Capacrayme, 2 wherein they made many sacrifices and cere 

 monies, which continued many daies, during the which no 

 stranger was suffered to bee at the Court, which was in 

 Cusco. These daies being past, they then gave libertie to 

 strangers to enter, that they might be partakers of the 

 feastes and sacrifices, ministring to them in this maner. 



1 Ray mi was the month of June. 



2 Ccapac Raymi was the solstice of December. 



