The nuns made all these things with their own hands, in great quantities for the Sun, their husband: but, as the Sun could not dress nor fetch the ornaments, they sent them to the Ynca, as his legitimate son and heir, that he might wear them. The Ynca received them as things sacred, and he and all his people held them in greater veneration than the Greeks and Romans would have done if, during the time of their idolatry, such things had been made by their goddesses, Juno, Venus, and Pallas. For these gentiles of the new world, being more simple than those of antiquity, worshipped with extreme veneration and heartfelt adoration that which, in their vain religion, they looked upon as sacred and divine. As those things were made by the hands of the Ccoyas, or wives of the Sun, and were made for the Sun, and as these women were by birth of the same blood as the Sun, for all these reasons their work was held in great veneration. So that the Ynca could not give the things made by the virgins to any person whatever who was not of the blood royal, because they said that it was unlawful for ordinary mortals to use divine things. The Yncas were prohibited from giving them to the Curacas, or captains, how great soever their services might have been, unless they were relations. Further on we shall relate what other clothes the Ynca presented to the Curacas, viceroys, and governors, as a mark of great favour.