Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas (William & 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, referred to 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 a few of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule. Thus, Molina’s account preserves a the most important 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 statement and notes. The work opens with several Inca creation myths and descriptions of the major gods and shrines (huacas). Molina then discusses a very powerful rituals that occurred in Cuzco all the way through 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 the way through the late 1560s in response to growing Spanish domination and accelerated violence against the so-referred to as idolatrous religions of the Andean peoples.

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