372 PERUVIAN FESTIVALS. 



LIB. v. stations and sacrifices in other Nations of the Indians, as in 

 the Province of Guatimala, at the Hands in the new King- 

 dome, in the Province of Chile, and others that were like 

 Cormnonwealthes and Comminalties. But it was nothing in 

 respect of Mexico and Cusco, where Sathan was as in 

 Eome, or in his Jerusalem, vntill he was cast out against 

 his will, and the holy Crosse planted in his place, and the 

 Kingdome of Christ our God occupied, the which the 

 tyrant did vsurpe. 



CHAP, xxviii. Of some Feasts celebrated by them of Cnsco, 



and how the Dwell would imitate the mysterie of 



the holy Trinitie. 



To conclude that which concernes Religion, there restes 

 something to speake of the feasts and solemnities which the 

 Indians did celebrate, the which (for that they are divers 

 and many) cannot be all specified. The Yncas, Lords of 

 Peru, had two kindes of feasts, some were ordinarie, which 

 fell out in certaine moneths of the yeere ; and others extra 

 ordinary, which were for certaine causes of importance, as 

 when they did crowne a new King, when they beganne 

 some warre of importance, when they had any great neede 

 of water or drought, or other like things. For the ordinary 

 feasts, we must vnderstand, that every moneth of the yeare 

 they made feasts, and divers sacrifices, and although all of 

 them had this alike, that they offered a hundred sheepe, yet 

 in colour and in forme they are very divers. In the first 

 moneth, which they call Ray me, which is the moneth of 

 December, they made their first feast, which was the prin- 

 cipall of all others, and for that cause they called it Capac- 

 raynre, which is to say, a rich and principall feast. In this 

 feast they offered a great number of sheepe and lambs in 

 sacrifice, and they burnt them with sweete wood, then they 



