ly l-eaits. 



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^ver, waft away mine Iniquities, and dif charge them into the Sea , that they may never be 

 more laid to my charge : which cuftom of Bathing, call'd Opacuna, was alio us'd by all 

 sw other Penitents. A Father lofing his Son by Death, was cenfur'd for a great Sinner, 

 wherefore he could not be permitted to be ConfelVd before he had been whipp'd 

 with Nettles by a cecain ill-look'd Officer appointed for that end . after which 

 their Fathers Ycburis enjoyn'd fuch Penances as they thought fit . fome were ordered 

 to fall fevcral days '. <jthers to pay rich Garments, Silver, Gold, or the like ; others 

 received a certain number of Blows 5 fome were condemned to live on the Moun- 

 tains, excluded from the fociety of all Men. If their Sorcerers at anytime fore- 

 told a Fathers Death, then he immediately Sacrifis'd his Son, that with his Death 

 The Bfeemhe mi^ht buy his own Life. No People were more refpedted than their Sooth* 

 Layers. f a y e rs, as Men that could difcover private Thefts, Accidents that hapned in re- 

 mote Countreys, and alfo future Events,and fo far their Credit amongft the Vulgar 

 carried them, that they undertook to tell the Spaniards when their Countrey-men 

 fliould be Conquerors, and when defeated in the War they maintain'd againft the 

 Tietber landers. There were alfo cunning Women, who making themfelves dead 

 Drunk with Chica, with which they mix'd the Herb Vtloa,znd afterwards coming to 

 themfelves again, anfwer'd all the Queftions that were piopofed to them, 

 •rteirmanth. The Peruvians kppt two forts of Feafts, the firft at certain times, the others on 

 fpecial occafions 5 the fet-Feafts were kept Monethly ; on the firft Moneth %ayme, 

 agreeing with our laft Moneth December, as aforefaid, they kept the great Feaft O- 

 pacrayme, on which they brought Multitudes of Sheep and Lambs- for Burnt-offer* 

 ings, befides Silver and Gold. Not far from the Fire ftood three Carved Images of 

 the Sun, and three others reprefenting Thunder,, and this was generally the Day 

 of the Inftallation of the young Inga's, which was after this manner : The chief 

 Prieft boring a Hole through his Ear, covered the upper part of his Body with the 

 holy Cloth Quarts, whileft the inferior Priefts whipthim with knotted Cords, and 

 painted his Face with the Blood. During thefe Ceremonies no Stranger was fuf- 

 fer'dto remain in Cufco, but after the Feaft was ended they all return'd, and as be- 

 fore, receiv'd Cakes bak'd of Mai^ and Blood, as a teftimony that they lov'd and 

 honored the Inga. 



The three Images of the Sun before-mention'd they call'd Apomti, Cburiunti, and 

 Intiquaoqui, that is, Father»Sun, Son-Sun, and !Brother*Stm. In like manner they nam'd 

 the three Images of Thunder, ChucpuiUa, Qatuilla, and Intillapa • from which Acofla 

 judges that the Devil had obfeurely taught the Peruvians the Myfteries of the holy 

 Sacrament and Trinity, (that their glory might be eclips'd by Idolatrous Errors) elpe- 

 cially the laft, which feems plainly to befignifi'd by the Peruvian Deity Tangatanga, 

 whornthey affirmed to be One in Three,and Three in One. And that other Nations 

 alio had a glimpfe of the fame may be colledted from Philip Cluverius, who endea- 

 vors to demonftrate, that the antient Germans and Gauls obfeurely ador'd the Trinity 

 in the midft of their Heathenifm, under the notion of Sun, Moon, and Fire, the Sun 

 fignifying the Father, the Moon the Son, and the Fire the Holy-Ghojl ; to confirm 

 which he makes ufc of Ctfar's Teftimony, Vi^. Tbpy omly ejleem thofe Gods whom they 

 fee, and thofe thtf.aflijl them, viz. the Sun, Vulcan, and the Moon ; for they have never 

 heard any thing concerning any other Gods* Diodorus Siculus feems alfo to afcribe a 

 glimpfe of this My ftery to the Egyptians, when he fays, That the antienteft Peo- 

 ple in Egypt, when they viewM the World, and were amaz'd at all things on the 

 Earth ,they judg'd that two Gods Governed them all, vi^.the Sun and Moon, by whom 

 all things flourifli'd and encreas'd 5 to whom they added a third, namely Fire, to 

 which they attributed a Divinity, as conducing much to the increafe and growth of 



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