Their Off.r- 



Their High 

 Feafts. 



4*4- A M E%1 C A. Chap. IV. 



from the Chacaras, or Church-Lands. Their Offerings were (for fometimes they 

 Offet'd to their Idols the highly efteem'd Herb CocM,Mii^.feveral colour'd Plumes 

 Sea-Monfters, Gold and Silver Images of Beafts, fine Clothes call'd Cumbi, Sweet- 

 Wood, and Tallow to burn) either to have fuccefs in their Journeys, Trades, or for 

 the prefcrvation of Health, or to obtain a plentiful Harveft. But their ufual Offer- 

 ings were Quces, a fort of Toads, which were eaten by the TeruVtans. When they 

 were to do any Bufinefs of confequence, then Perfons of Quality kill'd their Sheep 

 <Pacos, not without ftrange obfervationof the colour and number of them, as alfo 

 of the time • all which things well confider'd, they took the Sheep and laid it crofs 

 their right Arm, turn'd the Face thereof towards the Sun, and mutter'd feveral 

 words to themfelves according to the colour . for if it was fpotted grey, they 

 fpoketo Cbuquilla, or Thunder; if white and ftort Fleec'd, to the Sun . if well 

 Fleec'd, to Kracocba. In Cufco they Offer'd daily a ftort-fleee'd Sheep to the Sun in 

 this manner : Making a great Fire call'd Vibbacaronca, the Priefts threw the Sheep 

 and four Baskets of Cocoa into it. Their Sacrifices Co^ocoVicca and Sapovicca, to ob- 

 tain Conoucfts, were alfo very ftrange : for they gather'd out ofTma ( which is a 

 defolate place; feveral forts of Brambles and Bullies nam'd Ganilli, which being 

 all fet on fire, they went about the Fire with round Stones in their Hands, on 

 which we V painted Serpents, Lyons, Toads, and Tygers, crym^U/achum, grant us 

 Q>H«*fi> together with this Prayer, Veftroy, Creator, the poller of our Emmie, Cods • 

 which faid, feveral ftarv'd Sheep were brought out, which for that reafon they 

 call'd Urea ; whofe Hearts having torn out they began their Prayers afrefti, faying, 

 Mighty Viracocha, ibut do thou full out the Hearts of our Enemies. For the profperity of 

 the Jngas they kill'd in an open Field black Dogs, by them call'd Appfirucos, whofe 

 Flefh was eaten with many Ceremonies by People appointed for that purpofe. 

 They made Offerings alfo to the Fountains, Rivers, Brooks, and Sea-fhells, under 

 pretence that thofc Shells were Daughters of the Ocean, and the Ocean the" Father 

 of Streams and Springs ; when they bad Sow'n their Fields,theirPriefts,chofe to that 

 Office, went from Houfe to Houfe to gather fuch Offerings as every one was plcas'd 

 to give ; which they laid at the Banks of feveral Sluces, at the time when the Water 

 began to rife there,thinking by thatOblation to keep them from over.flowing their 

 Lands,and wafting away their Seed.In all places where two Rivers joyn'd together 

 they waft'd themfelves, having firft bedaub'd themfelves all over with ftamp'd 

 Mai^ and afterwards look'd upon themfelves as well purg'd from Sin . which 

 power they afcrib'd to their Baths. To ftrangle Children between four 'and ten 

 years of Age was never us'd , unlefs upon the Inga's being fick, or when he 

 receiv'd the Royal Taffel, that from the death of the Children he might receive 

 Health, or Reign profperoufly. The fore-mention'd Nuns that were chofe to at- 

 tend on the King's, were alfo ftranglcd when the Inga was fick . nay, fometimes 

 a Father would Offer his Son to Firacocha,on the Sun.Prieft's fuggeftion,That by his 

 Son's death he would recover from his Sicknefs, Praying to the foremention'd Dei. 

 ty, that they would be pleas'd to fave the fick Father, becaufe the Son had with 

 his Death paid for his Fathers. 



_ This kind of Cruelty the Devil feem'd to prompt the Heathens to, by making ufe 

 o! Abrahams Example, who prepar'd his Son I/aac for a Sacrifice on Mount Moria ■ 

 and that it was a Pradice amongft the antient Ammonites and Moabites, and other 

 Heathens (by which even the Children oilfrael were apt to be fedue'd) appears from 

 the Scripture it felf : the Ceremonies of which bruitift Cuftoms, with the feven 

 Brazen Chambers of Moloch, may be feen defcrib'd by <%abbi Solomon. 



The high Feaft Capacrayne, which the TeruYtans kept in the firft Moneth %ym; 



agreeing 





