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cloudcs engender. It was zGvaca, (for fo they called 

 their Oratories,) generall to be all tixlndians of Peru, 

 offering vnto him many facrifices : and in Crf/?0,whi-ch 

 is the Court and Metropolitan Cittie, they did facri- 

 fice children vnto him, as to the Sunne. They did wor- 

 fhip thefe three ^Viracocha, the Sunne, and Thunder 

 after another maner then all the reft,as Pello writes who 

 had made triail thereof, they did put as it were a gaunt 

 let or glove vpon their hands, when they did lift them 

 vp to vvorfliippe them. They did worfhippc the earth* 

 which they called Pachtmama^ the Ancients did the 

 goddefTe Tcllta : and the fca likewife which they call 

 Mamacdch^ as the Ancients worfhiped T/&tf#, QtNcf- 

 tune. Moreover, they did worfliip therainebow, which 

 were thearmes and blazons of the /#/**,. with two 

 {hakes ftretched outon either fide. Amongft the ftarres 

 they all did commonly worship that which they called 

 cWhi,and we heere CabriHc. They did attribute divers 

 offices to divers ftarres , and thofe which had neede of 

 their favour did woiihip them , as the fhepheard did fa- 

 crifice to a ftarrefhhich they called VrcukilUy > which 

 they hold to be a flieepe of divers colours, having the 

 care to prefervc their cattell; and they imagine it is that 

 which the AftronomcrscallT)^. Thcfe (hepheards 

 worfliippe two other ftarres \ which walke neere vnto 

 them, they call them CatttckiHaj, and VrcuchilUy ; and 

 they faine them to bean Eiveand a Lambc . Others 

 warfliipped a flarre which they called Mtchtcwy , to 

 which) they attribute the charge and power over fer- 

 pents 5 and fnakes, to keepe them from hurting of them. 

 They afcribe power to another ftarre , which they cal 

 led Chitguinch'wchay, (which is as much as Tigrc,) over 

 Tigres,Beares,and Lyons, and they have generally be- 



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