744 ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



gods of the conquered, the ancient Peruvians show. Gar- 

 cilasso tells us that Indian tribes are said to have some 

 times submitted from admiration of the higher culture of 

 the Yncas : the obligation to join in the Yncas worship 

 being one of the concomitants. Then of the Yncas them 

 selves, Herrera says 



&quot; When they saw the Spaniards make Arches on Centers, and take 

 them away when the Bridge was finish d, they all ran away, thinking 

 the Bridge would fall ; but when they saw it stand fast, and the 

 Spaniards walk on it, a Cacique said, It is but Justice to serve these 

 Men, who are the Children of the Sun.&quot; 



Evidently the attitude thus displayed conduced to accept 

 ance of the Spaniards beliefs and worship. And such mental 

 conquests often repeated in the evolution of societies, tend 

 towards the absorption of local and minor conceived super 

 natural agents in greater and more general ones. 



Especially is such absorption furthered when one who, as 

 a living ruler, was distinguished by his passion for subju 

 gating adjacent peoples, leaves at death unfulfilled projects of 

 conquest, and then has his ghost propitiated by extending his 

 dominion. As shown by a preceding extract, this was the 

 case with the Assyrian god Ashur ( 600) ; and it was so, too, 

 with the Hebrew god Jahveh: witness Deut. xx, 10 18. 



&quot; When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then 

 proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of 

 peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is 

 found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 

 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against 

 thee, then thou shalt besiege it : and when the Lord thy God hath 

 delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with 

 the edge of the sword. . . . But of the cities of these people, which 

 the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save 

 alive nothing that breatheth : But thou shalt utterly dest^y them.&quot; 



From the beginning we are shown that, setting out with the 

 double of the ordinary dead man, jealousy is a characteristic 

 ascribed to supernatural beings at large. Ghosts not duly 

 sacrificed to are conceived as malicious, and as apt to wreak 

 vengeance .on survivors; gods whose shrines have been ne 



