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Updated: May 21, 2025
At this moment I heard a great shouting and looking round, saw that the Quichuas had broken through our left and were slaughtering many, while the rest fled, also that our right was wavering. I sent messengers to Huaracha, bidding him call up the Yunca rear guard. They were slow in coming and I began to fear that all was lost for little by little the hordes of the men of Cuzco were surrounding us.
He insists, at length, and with much logic, that He whom, as a Christian, he worships, is in Quichua styled Pachacamac. In the temple this people, the Yuncas, offered even human sacrifices. Yunca superstitions, however, infested the temple, and a Voice gave oracles therein. The Yuncas also had a talking idol, which the Inca, in accordance with a religious treaty, occasionally consulted.
Payne appears to prefer Christoval's legend of the Inca crystal-gazer, to the rival version of Garcilasso. The Yunca form of the worship of Pachacamac Mr. Payne regards as an example of degradation. He disbelieves Garcilasso's statement, that human sacrifices were not made to the Sun. Garcilasso must, if Mr.
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