756 ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



local chiefs. But the principal priest (or bishop) in each province was 

 an Ynca, who took care that the sacrifices and ceremonies should be in 

 conformity with those of the metropolitan.&quot; 



And then we are told by another writer that 



In the great temple of Cuzco, &quot; the Ingas plac d the Gods of all the 

 Pi ovinces they conquer d, each Idol having its peculiar Altar, at which 

 those of the Province it belong d to offer d very expensive Sacrifices ; 

 tho Ingas thinking they had those Provinces secure, by keeping their 

 Gods as Hostages.&quot; 



In short the ancient Peruvian priesthood consisted of a major 

 hierarchy posed on many minor hierarchies. 



But besides these subordinations of one sacerdotal system 

 to another caused by conquest, there are, as implied in the 

 cases given, subordinations which arise within the organ 

 ization of each cult. Such differences of rank and function 

 existed in Egypt. Besides the high priests there were the 

 prophetce, the justopliori, the stolistes, the hierogrammateis, and 

 some others. Similarly among the Accadians. &quot; On comp- 

 tait a Babylone,&quot; says Maury, &quot; divers orclres de pretres on 

 interpretes sacres, les haJcimim ou savants, peut-etre les 

 medecins ; les khartumim, ou magiciens, les asaphim, ou 

 theologiens; et enfin les kasdim et les gazrim, c est-a-dire les 

 Chaldeens, les astrologues proprement dits.&quot; Eome, too, 

 &quot; had a very rich and complicated religious establishment &quot; 

 (1) the Pontiffs, Augurs, etc. ; (2) the Rex Sacrificulus, the 

 Sacrificers, and the Vestal Virgins; (3) Salii and Fetiales ; 

 (4) Curiones ; (5) Brotherhoods. And it was so with the 

 Mexican priests. &quot; Some were the sacrificers, others the 

 diviners ; some were the composers of hymns, others those 

 who sung. . . . Some priests -had the charge of keeping the 

 temple clean, some took care of the ornaments of the altars ; 

 to others belonged the instructing of youth, the correcting 

 of the calendar, the ordering of festivals, and the care oi 

 mythological paintings.&quot; 



Where, instead of coexisting religions with their priest 

 hoods which we find in most compound societies produced b} 1 

 war in early stages, we have an invading religion which, 



