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CHAPTER XXIV - NAMES BY WHICH THE INDIANS KNEW THEIR KING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

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The Indians, well considering the greatness of the love and mercy with which the Ynca had treated them, praised and blessed him exceedingly, seeking titles and names for their prince which should express the grandeur of his soul, and indicate his heroic virtues; and, among those which they invented, I will mention two. The first was Ccapac, which signifies rich, not in estates nor in the gifts of fortune as the Indians generally use the word, but rich in the gifts of the mind, in meekness, piety, clemency, liberality, justice, magnanimity, and the desire to do good to the poor. As this Ynca had done so much good to his vassals, they said that he might worthily be called Ccapac. The word also means rich and powerful in war. The other name was Huaccha-cuyac, which means a lover and benefactor of the poor. Thus the first name signified the greatness of his mind, and the second had reference to the benefits he had conferred on his people. From that time the prince was called Manco Ccapac, haying previously been known as Manco Ynca. Manco is a proper name, but we know not what signification it had in the general language of Peru, though in the special language in which the Yncas talked to each other (but which, as I am informed in letters from Peru, is now entirely lost) it must have had a meaning, for generally the names of the kings had some signification, as we shall explain when we give the other names.

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Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1869

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