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CHAPTER XXII - THE CONSULTATIONS OF THE YNCA, TOUCHING THE STORY OF THE APPARITION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

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The Ynca Yahuar-huaccac, being enraged against his son, would not believe his story, but said that he was an insolent madman for asserting that his own nonsense was a revelation from his father the Sun; and ordered him to return to Chita at once, and not again to leave it, on pain of the royal displeasure. So the prince returned to tend his sheep; but the brothers and uncles of the Ynca, who were near his person, being superstitious, and believers in omens, and especially in dreams, received what the prince had said in another spirit. They said to the Ynca that he should not despise the message from the Ynca Huira-ccocha his brother, seeing that he had said he was a child of the Sun, and that he came on the part of his father. Nor could it be believed that the prince would invent such things concerning the Sun, for it would be sacrilege to imagine it, much more to say it before his father the Ynca. They urged that it would be well that the words of the prince should be examined one by one, that sacrifices to the Sun should be made, and auguries taken to see whether what they prognosticated was good or evil, and that the necessary arrangements should be made at once for so important a business; for, they said, to leave them unexamined would not only be hurtful, but would also show disrespect to the Sun, their common father, who had sent the message, and to the Ynca Huira-ccocha, his son, who had brought it. Such a course would be to heap error upon error.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1869

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