Returning to the idolatry of the Yncas, we assert more at large than we have done before, that they had no other gods than the sun, which they worshipped outwardly. To the sun they built temples, with walls lined above and below with plates of gold: to it they offered many things as sacrifices; to it they presented great gifts of gold and of all the most precious things they possessed, in acknowledgment of what it had done for them. They adjudicated the third part of all the cultivated land of the countries they conquered, and of the harvests, to be the property of the sun, besides innumerable flocks. They erected houses, carefully secluded, for women dedicated to his service, who preserved perpetual virginity.

Besides the sun they worshipped Pachacamac (as has been said) inwardly, as an unknown God. They held him in greater veneration than the sun. They did not offer sacrifices nor build temples to him; because they said that he was not known to them, never having allowed himself to be seen. In its proper place we shall speak of the famous and most wealthy temple in the valley called Pachacamac, dedicated to this unknown God.

Thus the Yncas did not worship more gods than the two we have named; one visible, the other invisible. For those princes and their amautas, who were the philosophers and doctors of their commonwealth, although they had no knowledge of letters (never having used them), understood that it was a very unworthy and degrading thing to impute honour, power, and divine virtue to the inferior things under heaven.