Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Dedication
- PREFACE TO THE READER
- NOTES TOUCHING THE GENERAL LANGUAGE OF THE INDIANS OF PERU
- THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER I WHETHER THERE ARE MANY WORLDS: ALSO TREATING OF THE FIVE ZONES
- CHAPTER II WHETHER THERE ARE ANTIPODES
- CHAPTER III HOW THE NEW WORLD WAS DISCOVERED
- CHAPTER IV THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD “PERU.”
- CHAPTER V AUTHORITIES IN CONFIRMATION OF THE NAME “PERÙ
- CHAPTER VI WHAT A CERTAIN AUTHOR SAYS TOUCHING THIS NAME OF PERU
- CHAPTER VII OF OTHER DERIVATIONS OF NEW WORDS
- CHAPTER VIII THE DESCRIPTION OF PERU
- CHAPTER IX OF THE IDOLATRY OF THE INDIANS AND OF THE GODS THEY WORSHIPPED BEFORE THE TIME OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER X OF MANY OTHER GODS THAT THEY HAD
- CHAPTER XI OF THE MANNER OF THEIR SACRIFICES
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE MODE OF LIFE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE, AND OF THE THINGS THEY ATE
- CHAPTER XIII HOW THEY DRESSED IN THOSE ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER XIV DIFFERENT MODES OF MARRIAGE, AND DIVERS LANGUAGES. HOW THEY USED POISONS AND PRACTISED SORCERY
- CHAPTER XV THE ORIGIN OF THE YNCAS KINGS OF PERU
- CHAPTER XVI THE FOUNDATION OF CUZCO, THE IMPERIAL CITY
- CHAPTER XVII OF THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS BROUGHT UNDER THE RULE OF THE YNCA MANCO CCAPAC
- CHAPTER XVIII OF FABULOUS ACCOUNTS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER XIX PROTEST OF THE AUTHOR TOUCHING THE HISTORY
- CHAPTER XX THE VILLAGES WHICH THE FIRST YNCA ORDERED TO BE FOUNDED
- CHAPTER XXI THE THINGS WHICH THE YNCA TAUGHT TO HIS VASSALS
- CHAPTER XXII THE HONOURABLE BADGES WHICH THE YNCA GAVE TO HIS FOLLOWERS
- CHAPTER XXIII OF OTHER FASHIONS, AND OF THE NAME OF YNCA
- CHAPTER XXIV NAMES BY WHICH THE INDIANS KNEW THEIR KING
- CHAPTER XXV OF THE WILL AND DEATH OF THE YNCA MANCO CCAPAC
- CHAPTER XXVI OF THE ROYAL NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS
- SECOND BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- THIRD BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- FOURTH BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- INDEX
CHAPTER XXI - THE THINGS WHICH THE YNCA TAUGHT TO HIS VASSALS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Dedication
- PREFACE TO THE READER
- NOTES TOUCHING THE GENERAL LANGUAGE OF THE INDIANS OF PERU
- THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER I WHETHER THERE ARE MANY WORLDS: ALSO TREATING OF THE FIVE ZONES
- CHAPTER II WHETHER THERE ARE ANTIPODES
- CHAPTER III HOW THE NEW WORLD WAS DISCOVERED
- CHAPTER IV THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD “PERU.”
- CHAPTER V AUTHORITIES IN CONFIRMATION OF THE NAME “PERÙ
- CHAPTER VI WHAT A CERTAIN AUTHOR SAYS TOUCHING THIS NAME OF PERU
- CHAPTER VII OF OTHER DERIVATIONS OF NEW WORDS
- CHAPTER VIII THE DESCRIPTION OF PERU
- CHAPTER IX OF THE IDOLATRY OF THE INDIANS AND OF THE GODS THEY WORSHIPPED BEFORE THE TIME OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER X OF MANY OTHER GODS THAT THEY HAD
- CHAPTER XI OF THE MANNER OF THEIR SACRIFICES
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE MODE OF LIFE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE, AND OF THE THINGS THEY ATE
- CHAPTER XIII HOW THEY DRESSED IN THOSE ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER XIV DIFFERENT MODES OF MARRIAGE, AND DIVERS LANGUAGES. HOW THEY USED POISONS AND PRACTISED SORCERY
- CHAPTER XV THE ORIGIN OF THE YNCAS KINGS OF PERU
- CHAPTER XVI THE FOUNDATION OF CUZCO, THE IMPERIAL CITY
- CHAPTER XVII OF THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS BROUGHT UNDER THE RULE OF THE YNCA MANCO CCAPAC
- CHAPTER XVIII OF FABULOUS ACCOUNTS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE YNCAS
- CHAPTER XIX PROTEST OF THE AUTHOR TOUCHING THE HISTORY
- CHAPTER XX THE VILLAGES WHICH THE FIRST YNCA ORDERED TO BE FOUNDED
- CHAPTER XXI THE THINGS WHICH THE YNCA TAUGHT TO HIS VASSALS
- CHAPTER XXII THE HONOURABLE BADGES WHICH THE YNCA GAVE TO HIS FOLLOWERS
- CHAPTER XXIII OF OTHER FASHIONS, AND OF THE NAME OF YNCA
- CHAPTER XXIV NAMES BY WHICH THE INDIANS KNEW THEIR KING
- CHAPTER XXV OF THE WILL AND DEATH OF THE YNCA MANCO CCAPAC
- CHAPTER XXVI OF THE ROYAL NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS
- SECOND BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- THIRD BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- FOURTH BOOK OF THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS
- INDEX
Summary
The Ynca Manco Ccapac, in establishing his people in villages, while he taught them to cultivate the land, to build houses, construct channels for irrigation, and to do all other things necessary for human life; also instructed them in the ways of polite and brotherly companionship, in conformity with reason and the law of nature, persuading them, with much earnestness, to preserve perpetual peace and concord between themselves, and not to entertain anger or passionate feelings towards each other, but to do to one another as they would others should do to them, not laying down one law for themselves and another for their neighbours. He particularly enjoined them to respect the wives and daughters of others; because they were formerly more vicious in respect to women, than in any other thing whatever. He imposed the penalty of death on adulterers, homicides, and thieves. He ordered no man to have more than one wife, and that marriages should take place between relations, so as to prevent confusion in families, also that marriages should take place at the age of twenty years and upwards, that the married couples might be able to rule their households, and work their estates. He directed the tame flocks, which wandered over the country without a master, to be collected, so that all people might be clothed with their wool, by reason of the industry and skill which had been taught to the women by the Queen Mama Occllo Huaco.
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- First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas , pp. 81 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1869