The Huacas Speak
The Gods, Priests, Fasts and Prayers of the Incas, from Three Early Accounts of Peru

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The living religion of the Incas, from the first men who wrote it down, in a new translation.

In the Andes the sacred was everywhere: in mountains and springs, in stones and the mummies of the ancestors, in the sun and the thunder. Each of these was a huaca, and huacas spoke, demanded and had to be fed. Here the first friars to reach the highlands of Huamachuco describe the thunder god Catequil, born from an egg, before they destroyed his shrine. An anonymous author, perhaps the Jesuit Blas Valera, sets out the gods, priests, confessors, fasts and laws of the Incas in their defence. And the Andean noble Pachacuti Yamqui tells the story of his ancestors, and of the golden image of the maker of the sun in the temple of Coricancha.

Three of the earliest accounts of Peru, complete. With a translator's introduction, notes, glossary and index.

Ancient Americas Classics, Volume III. Translated from the Spanish, with an introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography and index, by Rob Newton M.D.