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Previously to the race who inhabited Peru when it was dis- 
covered, another race dwelt there. Their creed was greatly 
disfigured with superstitions, yet it still had a conception of a 
Supreme Being whose name was Con, who was an invisible 
and omnipotent spirit, which inhabited the universe. He had 
a son whose name was Pachacamac, who did much to renovate 
the world. One of the Incas, however, afterwards introduced 
the worship of the Sun, and declared him to be the Supreme 
Divinity, and taught the people that Con and Pachacamac 
were his children. Most of the people accepted this in the 
course of time, but not all.* 
The Catios of Columbia had no temples, but worshipped the 
stars, and believed in one God.t 
In Yucatan, Nicaragua, and Michcoacan the people believed 
in a Supreme Being, the First Cause and invisible. The 
Chihuahuans worshipped a Great God called Captain of the 
Heaven, while a lesser divinity inspired the priests. In 
Durango they called the principal power the “ Maker of all 
things,” and the Mexicans adored him under the name of 
Tloque Nahuaque, ‘‘ The Cause of all things,” the same Being 
as the ‘‘ Heart of Heaven” of Guatemala. t 
The Aztecs also had a Supreme Ruler and Lord of the 
universe. 
The Zunis, according to Mr. F. C. Cushing, believe there is 
one Supreme Ruler over all the gods, whose name is Hano- 
ona-wilona, or holder of the roads of light, and he is repre- 
sented by the Sun itself. He is believed to be able not only 
to see the visible actions of men, but also their thoughts.§ 
The Moquis believe in a Great Father, who lives where the 
sun rises, the father of evil, war, pestilence, and famine, and 
a mother, whose home is where the sun sets, from whom we 
have joy, peace, plenty, and health. The Mojaves believe in 
a material Creator of heaven and earth, who has a son, Mas- 
tanho, who made the water and planted trees ; the Apaches 
have a Supreme Power in heaven, the Creator and Master; 
and the natives of Nevada a great, good, kind Spirit. || 
The Karoks of California have a conception of a Supreme 
Being, whom they call Kareya, the old man above, who some- 
times descends to the earth as a venerable man to teach the 
medicine men, though, like most California tribes, the Coyote 
* Tschudi’s Peruvian Antiquities, chap. vii. 
+ American Antiquarian, July, 1882, p. 177. 
+ Bancroft’s Native Races of the Pacific States, vol. iii, chap. vi. 
§ Popular Science Monthly, June, 1882. 
|| Bancroft’s Native Races of the Pacific Statzs, vol. iii. 
