First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas

Table of Contents

Introduction
Book I:
1. Whether there are many worlds
2. Whether there are antipodes
3. How the new world was discovered
4. The derivation of the word Peru
5. Authorities in confirmation of the name Peru
6. What a certain author says touching this name of Peru
7. Of other derivations of new words
8. The description of Peru
9. Of the idolatry of the Indians
10. Of many other gods that they had
11. Of the manner of their sacrifices
12. Concerning the mode of life and government of the ancient people
13. How they dressed in those ancient times
14. Different modes of marriage, and divers languages
15. The origin of the Yncas kings of Peru
16. The founding of Cuzco, the imperial city
17. Of the country which was brought under the rule of the Ynca Manco Ccapac
18. Of fabulous accounts of the origin of the Yncas
19. Protest of the author touching the history
20. The villages which the first Ynca ordered to be founded
21. The things which the Ynca taught to his vassals
22. The honourable badges which the Ynca gave to his followers
23. Of other fashions, and of the name of Ynca
24. Names by which the Indians knew their king
25. Of the will and death of the Ynca Manco Ccapac
26. Of the royal names and their meanings
Book II. 1. Of the idolatry of the second age, and of its origin
2. The Yncas sought the true God Our Lord
3. The Yncas kept a cross in a sacred place
4. Of many gods improperly attributed to the Indians by the Spanish historians
5. Of many other meanings of the word Huaca
6. What an author says concerning their gods
7. They knew of the immortality of the soul, and of the general resurrection
8. Of the things that they sacrificed to the sky
9. Of the priests, rites, and ceremonies, and of the laws attributed to the first Ynca
10. The author collates his own statements with those of the Spanish historians
11. They divided the empire into four districts, and registered their vassals
12. Two duties which the decurions performed
13. Concerning certain laws that the Yncas instituted in their government
14. The decurions gave an account of the births and deaths
15. The Indians deny that an Ynca of the blood royal has ever committed any crime whatever
16. The life and acts of Sinchi Roca the second king of the Ynca dynasty
17. Lloque Yupanqui, third king, and the meaning of his name
18. Two conquests made by the Ynca Lloque Yupanqui
19. The conquests of Hatun-Colla, and the origin of the Collas
20. The great province of Chucuitu is reduced
21. The sciences which the Yncas had acquired
22. They understood the measurement of the year, and the solstices and equinoxes
23. They observed the eclipses of the sun, and what they did when those of the moon occurred
24. The medicines they used, and their manner of effecting cures
25. Of the medicinal herbs they used
26. Of their knowledge touching geometry, arithmetic, and music
27. The poetry of the Yncas Amautas, who are philosophers, and haravicus or poets
28. Of the few instruments which the Indians used for various purposes
Book III:
1. Mayta Ccapac, the fourth Ynca, annexes Tiahuanaca
2. Hatunpacasa is reduced, and they conquer Cac-Yaviri
3. The Indians who surrendered are pardoned
4. They reduce three provinces and conquer others
5. The Ynca acquires three new provinces
6. Those of Huaychu submit, and are mercifully pardoned
7. They reduce many towns
8. Many nations are reduced to submission by the fame of the bridge
9. The Ynca acquires many other great provinces, and dies in peace
10. Ccapac Yupanqui, the fifth king, gains many provinces in Cunti-Suyu
11. The conquest of the Aymaras
12. The Ynca sends an army to conquer the Quechuas
13. They conquer many valleys on the sea coast
14. Two great curacas refer their differences to the Ynca, and become his subjects
15. They make a bridge over the Desaguadero
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