Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas

Sacred-Texts Native American Inca

	Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas
	trans. and ed. by Clements R. Markham
	[London, 1873]
	{Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, March 2003}

This book is a compendium of translations of four rather disparate documents relating to pre-conquest Peru. As with most early studies of Spanish America, they range rather freely between religion, history, and laws. The fourth in particular is exclusively concerned with laws, while the third is mythological, and is also interesting because it deals with an outlying province of the Inca empire. The printed book also contains a fifty page index of subjects, places, names, and Quechua words which is not reproduced here.

•Title Page.
•CONTENTS.
•INTRODUCTION.
•THE FABLES AND RITES OF THE YNCAS.
by Christoval de Molina
•AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF PERU.
by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-yamqui Salcamayhua
•A NARRATIVE OF THE ERRORS, FALSE GODS, AND OTHER SUPERSTITIONS AND DIABOLICAL RITES IN WHICH THE INDIANS OF THE PROVINCES OF HUAROCHIRI, MAMA, AND CHACLLA LIVED IN ANCIENT TIMES, AND IN WHICH THEY EVEN NOW LIVE, TO THE GREAT PERDITION OF THEIR SOULS.
by Dr. Francisco de Avila
•REPORT BY POLO DE ONDEGARDO.

Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas

trans. and ed. by Clements R. Markham

[London, 1873]

{Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, March 2003}