1O4 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



fame with theEubages, of whom AmmianusMar- 

 cellinus fpeaks, and the Saronides that are men- 

 tioned by Diodorus Siculus. They taught a re- 

 ligion to the people, which they had probably 

 learned from the Phoceans. They had an extra- 

 ordinary veneration for the oak, becaufe that tree 

 bore the miftletoe. For the reft, they applied 

 themfelves to the contemplation of the works of 

 nature, and regulated the religious ceremonies, 

 being at once the theologians and philoibphers 

 of the ancient Gauls ; of whom the Bards were 

 the poets, fcholars, and muficians. 



XIV. (12.) The Religion of the Peruvians, or 

 the Tncas. The firft king of Peru was, they fay, 

 Ynca Manco Capac, and all his fucceflbrs have 

 been called, from his name, Yncas. The Peru- 

 vians make their firft kings to be defcended from 

 the fun, which they adore as a god. Their other 

 divinities, as the moon, the fifter and wife of the 

 fun, which they named Quilla ; the ftar Venus, 

 that they call Chafca ; the thunder and lighten- 

 ing, to which they gave the common name of 

 Yllapa ; the rainbow, that they named Cuychu; 

 were divinities inferior to the fun. To all theic, 

 however, magnificent temples were erected. They 

 facrificed all fort of animals to the fun, efpecially 

 fheep, but never men, as the Spaniards have faliely 

 reported of them. They confccrated virgins in- 

 deed to the fun, but that was in the manner of 

 devotees, or nuns. Thefe divinities, but efpe- 

 cially the fun, had their folemn feafts. The Pe- 

 ruvians, 



