340 The 3\(atttrall andMoratt 



ccipts, and their hearts were hardened in their follies, 

 and they have changed the glory and deity of the eter* 

 nail God, into (hews and figures of vaine and corrupti 

 ble things, as men, birds, beaftsandferpents: we know 

 well tint the Egyptians did worfliip the Dogge of oft. 

 r#,the Cow of lfa,and the Sheepeof Artomon:t\\e. Ro 

 mans did worfliip the goddefle Februa, or Feavcrs,ancl 

 theTarpeiev Goofe : and Atbenes the wife did worfliip 

 the Cockc and theRaven, and fiich other like vanities 

 and mockeries , whoreof the aunticnt Hiftories of the 

 Gen tiles are full. Men fell into this great mifery , for 

 that they would not fubie<5t themfelves to the Lawe of 

 the true God and Creator , as Saint Atfawtjit& dooth 

 learnedly handle , writing againft Idolatry . But it is 

 vvonderfullftrange to feethe excefle which hath beenc 

 at the Indies , efpecially in Peru : for they worfhipped 

 rivers, fountaincs, the mouthes of rivers , entries of 

 mountaines, rockes or great ftones, hilles and the tops 

 of mountains 5 which they call AfAchitat^n^ they hold 

 them formatters of great devotion. To eonclude,they 

 did worfliip all things in nature^whichfeemed to them 

 remarkable and different from the reft,as acknowledg 

 ing fome particular deitie. 



They flicwd me in EttxitoXlcM of Naftaz little hill or 

 great mount of fand , which was the chiefe Idoll or 

 GUACA of the Antients. I demaunded of them what di- 

 vinitie they found in it^They anfwered , that they did 

 worfliip it for the woondcr, beeing a very high mount 

 of fand, in the midftof very thickc mountains of ftone. 

 Wee had needein the cittieof Kings^ of great ftore of 

 great wood 5 for the melting of a Bell, and therefore 

 they cut downeagreat deformed tree, which for the 

 greatnefle and antiquitie thereof had bcene along time 



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