Indigenous & Ancestral Traditions

Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas

Four 16th/17th-century Spanish manuscript accounts of Inca religion: the fables and rites of the Yncas by Cristóbal de Molina, the antiquities of Peru by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua, the idolatries of Huarochirí by Francisco de Ávila, and a report on Inca history and administration by Polo de Ondegardo. Presents the complete text of all four in Clements Markham's 1873 translation (Hakluyt Society).