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all things. The Moon, which was alio call'djW, they judg'd to be the Offspring 

 of God, (for Son and Daughter were promifcuoufly taken) who, according to 

 Homer, Marrying with Jupiter, brought forth Vulcan, which might haply be to them 

 a Type or Figure of the Holy-Ghoft, proceeding from the Father and Son : Vulcan 

 was by her plac'd a Prefident over the Fire, by which the Heathens feem'd to imitate 

 the fiery Power of the Holy»GhoJl, purifying and cleanfing all things : and this 

 cleanfing Power was aim'd at by (2(pw«/wi,when,according to Dionyfius Halicaniajfenfts, 

 he commanded his Soldiers to leap through a Fire made before his Tent, that fo 

 they might be purifi'd from all their Crimes. f But it may be thought ftrange, that 

 the Peruvians, Germans, ox Egyptians, loft in a Wood of grofs Idolatry, could have any 

 appreh*nfion,though never fo obfeure, of the holy Trinity , when as the moft nice and 

 curious Greek and %oman Wits have made fuch^grofs miftakes concerning God. But 

 to return again to the Peruvians: They kept their fecond Feaft in the fecond Moneth 

 Camay y on which they threw the Alhes of their Offerings into the River, and fol- 

 low'd them on the Shore for the fpace of five Leagues, praying the River to carry 

 the Afhes to the Sea, where Viracocba* would receive them. In the third and fou/th 

 Moneths they kill'd a hundred and ten black fpotted and grey Sheep. In the be- Their hv- 

 ginning of May (by the Peruvians call'd Hatuncuzyui) they gather d in their Mai^ and ■««. 

 kept the Feaft Jymorai 5 after which they return'd home Singing from thrir Fields, 

 call'd Chacra* and carried a great heap of Mai^ with them, nam'd Perm, wrapping 

 it up in rich Garments^ three Nights they continu'd their Ceremonies, implo- 

 ring the Pcrua to prefcrve their Harvcft of Ma'i^ from any damage that might chance 

 to come to it, and alfo to let that grow profperoufly which they fliould Plant 

 next. Laftly, their Sorcerers confulted whether the Perua could laft till the next 

 year ? to which if they were anfwer'd^o, they carried it into the Fields, and burn- 

 ing it, made a new Perua, which when they knew to be lufficientto laft good a year, 

 they carried it to the Granary in great triumph. In the fe vent h Moneth Ancaya- 

 cuzquiy they kept the Feaft call'd lntraymi, wit?h a hundred Sheep, in honor of the 

 Sun. They alfo made feveral Images of the Wood Quim'ta, which they put in rich 



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