Inca Religion and CustomsUniversity of Texas Press, 1990 - 279 páginas Completed in 1653, Father Bernabe Cobo's Historia del Nuevo Mundo is an important source of information on pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America. Though parts of the work are now lost, the remaining sections which have been translated offer valuable insights into Inca culture and Peruvian history. Inca Religion and Customs is the second translation by Roland Hamilton from Cobo's massive work. Beginning where History of the Inca Empire left off, it provides a vast amount of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples. Despite his obvious Christian bias as a Jesuit priest, Cobo objectively and thoroughly describes many of the religious practices of the Incas. He catalogs their origin myths, beliefs about the afterlife, shrines and objects of worship, sacrifices, sins, festivals, and the roles of priests, sorcerers, and doctors. The section on Inca customs is equally inclusive. Cobo covers such topics as language, food and shelter, marriage and childrearing, agriculture, warfare, medicine, practical crafts, games, and burial rituals. Because the Incas apparently had no written language, such postconquest documents are an important source of information about Inca life and culture. Cobo's work, written by one who wanted to preserve something of the indigenous culture that his fellow Spaniards were fast destroying, is one of the most accurate and highly respected. |
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... caciques and leaders , and each one of them took out a bit of wool ; when it was gathered together , the wool was burned by itself . One day when the new moon could be seen this month , those who had been knighted came to the square ...
... caciques and leaders , and each one of them took out a bit of wool ; when it was gathered together , the wool was burned by itself . One day when the new moon could be seen this month , those who had been knighted came to the square ...
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Father Bernabe Cobo Roland Hamilton. The sortilegos cacique of each town would select all of them after they had be- come too weak to work . The selection was preceded by diverse cere- monies and rites which these caciques ordered them ...
Father Bernabe Cobo Roland Hamilton. The sortilegos cacique of each town would select all of them after they had be- come too weak to work . The selection was preceded by diverse cere- monies and rites which these caciques ordered them ...
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... caciques and great lords had gold ones in ancient times . Once a cacique showed me one of the ancient tumblers made of pure gold ; it was the same shape as our earthen bowls and just as thick . There is the same difference ( in ...
... caciques and great lords had gold ones in ancient times . Once a cacique showed me one of the ancient tumblers made of pure gold ; it was the same shape as our earthen bowls and just as thick . There is the same difference ( in ...
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Paganism of Inca Religion | 3 |
Origin Fables 3 Afterlife | 19 |
Viracocha the Creator 5 Sun Worship | 25 |
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