Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks.

  • Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz
Date:
1854
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Credit: Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thereby between them: for by this means, one will come to know the huacas of one from another, and it is well to im- prove such an occasion whenever it offers. In order to ascertain what stock or race the Indian belongs to, we must propose the following questions:— II. What is the name of the principal huaca of this nation, which all adore ? III. Is this Imaca some sceptre, or large rock, or small stone ? Discover as far as possible all circumstances and signs connected with it. IV. Has this huaca a son, who may be a stone, and a huaca like itself, or has it father, brother or wife ? This question must be asked because the principal huacas always have their traditions, that they had sons, and that they were men who were converted into stones, etc. Y, Who keeps this huaca f VI. What other huacas are worshipped by the nation ? YII. What huaca do they invoke for the habitations, and for the corn, or for potatoes; or what huaca do they invoke for the increase of gain or of the cuyes [a small animal like a rabbit]. YIII. Whether they have Cocamama or Zaramama ? IX. What huacas they invoke in their dwellings for the increase of them, whom they call Chacro.yoc? X. What springs or lakes they worship ? XI. What they call their little bird, and why they always worship it? XII. What they call the Marcaxjoc or Marcachacra ? which is, as it were,, the patron and advocate of the people, and is sometimes of stone and sometimes the body of some of their progenitors, who, they suppose, was the first that peo- pled that land; and so we must ask whether it is a stone or a body.
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