Hi(lorie of the Indies, lib.?. 4.11 



or in his Ierttfalem,vnti\l he was caft out againft his will, 

 and the holy CroflTc planted in his place, and the King- 

 dome of Chrift our God occupied 3 the which the ty 

 rant did vfurpe. 



tkkrAttd by them a/*Cufco, 

 Divctt would imitate the wyftcrieofthehdy 

 Trinitit. CHAP. 28. 



TO conclude that which concernes Religion,there 

 reftes fomething to fpeake of the feaits and folem- 

 ni ties which the Indians did celebrate, the whieh(for 

 that they are divers and many) cannot be all fpecified. 

 The Ingnas Lords of Peru, had two kindes of feafts, 

 fomc were ordinarie , which fell out in ccrtainemo- 

 ncths,oftheyeere: and othei*s extraordinary , which 

 were for ccjtaine caufes of importance , as when they 

 didcrownc anew King, when they beganne fbme 

 warre of importance, when they had any great neede 

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

 nary fcafts, we mufivnderftand, that every moneth of 

 the yeare they made feafts 5 and divers facrifices, and a!- * 

 though all of them had this alike , that they offered a 

 hundred iheepe , yet in colour, and in forme, they are 

 very divers. In the firft moneth which they call Rayme^ 

 which is the moneth of December, they made their 

 firft feaft, which was the principallofall others, andfbr 

 thatcaufe they called it Capacrayme y which is to fay, 

 a rich and principall feaft. In this feaft they offered a 

 great number of fheepc and lambs in facrifice,and they 

 burnt them with fweete wood, then they caufedgold 

 and filver to be brought vpon certaine flieepe , fetting 

 vppon them three Images of the Sun,and thrcc of the 



thunder^ 



