Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks.
- Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![his sisters, and told them that they must consider him as the only child or son of the Sun, and obey him as such. He commanded his kinsmen to level the ground and make houses of stone; such was the origin of the city of Cuzco.* The neighboring nations followed the example of the vassals or subjects of Ayar-Uchu-Topa, and founded populations in the vicinity of this city. For sixty years did this first king govern, (whom Indian traditions also called Puhua-Manco), leaving the throne, to his eldest son, the fruit of his union with his sister, Mama-Cora. II. Manco-Capac 1. The princes of the adjacent nations dreading the power of Manco-Capac, solicited his alliance, and to accomplish this ' object they proposed to him to take for a wife the daughter of the chief among them. The monarch consented, but while they were making preparations for the wedding feasts, they received the news that a numerous multitude were ap- proaching Cuzco, from the side of Arica and the Collas, [or South.] Manco-Capac marched without delay to repel the foreign invasion, notwithstanding they sent him deputies assuring him that they had no evil intentions, and only begged for land to cultivate, and pasture for their cattle. The Peruvian monarch assigned them the provinces of the North ; many went to Pomacocha, Quinoa, Huaytara, and Chachapoyas ; some embarked on the Apurimac and Maranon. Traditions call this foreign horde Atumuru- NAS. III. Huainaevi-Pishua reigned 50 years, and died at the age of 90. Having obtained possession of a son of his, together with ^ Montesinos supposes that the name of Cuzco is derived from Cosca, an Indian word, which signifies to level; or, from those heaps of earth, called coscos, which were found in the environs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24883463_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
