Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)

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Only a couple of decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, known as for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report used to be prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city. Molina used to be an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced language skills allowed him to interview the older indigenous men of Cuzco who were some of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule. Thus, Molina’s account preserves a a very powerful first-hand record of Inca religious beliefs and practices.

This volume is the first English translation of Molina’s Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los incas since 1873 and includes the first authoritative scholarly observation and notes. The work opens with several Inca creation myths and descriptions of the major gods and shrines (huacas). Molina then discusses an important rituals that occurred in Cuzco all over each month of the year, in addition to rituals that were not tied to the ceremonial calendar, such as birth rituals, female initiation rites, and marriages. Molina also describes the Capacocha ritual, in which the entire shrines of the empire were offered sacrifices, in addition to the Taqui Ongoy, a millennial movement that spread across the Andes all over the late 1560s in response to growing Spanish domination and accelerated violence against the so-known as idolatrous religions of the Andean peoples.

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