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steps^ which lead to a seat hollowed out iit 
the same stone, and so placed, that from the 
bottom of a hollow the image of the sun may 
be seen.. 
The natives relate, that, when the Inca Tupa- 
yupangi advanced with his army to make the 
conquest of the kingdom of Quito, then governed 
by the Conchocando of Lican, the priests dis- 
covered on the stone the image of the divinity, 
whose worship ought to be introduced among 
the conquered nations. The inhabitants of 
Cuzco thought they every where beheld the 
figure of the Sun, as the Christians, under every 
zone, have found either crosses, or the print of 
the feet of the Apostle St. Thomas, traced on 
rocks. The Peruvian prince aud his soldiers 
considered the discovery of the stone of Inti- 
Guaicu as of happy augury: it contributed, with- 
out doubt, to induce the Incas to build a habita- 
tion at Cannar : for it is known, that the descendr 
ants of Manco-Capao considered themselves as 
the children of the star of day, an opinion 
which offers a singular coincidence between the 
first legislator of Peru, and that of India 
who was also called V %ivasaouta^ oi* son of the 
Sun, 
* Menou 2, or Satyavrata. Keelicrches Asiatiques, tom. 
1, p. tom. 2, p. 172. Paolin. Systema Brachmart, 
p. 141. 
