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A22928	The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies Intreating of the remarkable things of heaven, of the elements, mettalls, plants and beasts which are proper to that country: together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E.G.; Historia natural y moral de las Indias. English	Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.; Grimeston, Edward, attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 94; ESTC S100394	372,047	616

or terrasse which they call Tloteloli where they inhabited calling it Tlatellulco which signifies place of a terrasse This was the third division of the Mexicaines since they left their Country That of Mechovacan being the first and that of Malinalco the second Those which seperated themselves and went to Tlatellulco were famous men but of bad disposition and therefore they practised against the Mexicaines their neighbours all the ill neighbourhood they could They had alwaies quarrells against them and to this day continues their hatred and olde leagues They of Tenoxtiltan seeing them of Tlatellulco thus opposite vnto them and that they multiplied feared that in time they might surmount them heerevpon they assembled in counsell where they thought it good to choose a King whome they should obey and strike terror into their enemies that by this meanes they should bee more vnited and stronger among themselves and their enemies not presume too much against them Being thus resolved to choose a King they tooke another advise very profitable and assured to choose none among themselves for the avoyding of diffentions and to gaine by their new King some other neighbour nations by whom they were invironed being destitute of all succours All well considered both to pacifie the King of Culhuacan whom they had greatly offended having slaine and flead the daughter of his predecessor and done him so great a scorne as also to have a King of the Mexicaine blood of which generation there were many in Culhuacan which continued there since the time they lived in peace amongst them they resolved to choose for their King a yong man called Acamapixtli sonne to a great Mexicaine Prince and of a Ladie daughter to the King of Culhuacan Presently they sent Ambassadors with a great present to demand this man who delivered their Ambassage in these tearmes Great Lord we your vassalls and servants placed and shut vp in the weedes and reedes of the Lake alone and abandoned of all the Nations of the world led onely and guided by our god to the place where we are which falles in the iurisdiction of your limits of Ascapusalco and of Tescuco Although you have suffered vs to live and remaine there yet will we not neither is it reason to live without a head and lord to command correct and governe vs instructing vs in the course of our life and defending vs from our enemies Therefore we come to you knowing that in your Court and house there are children of our generation linckt and alied with yours issued from our entrailes and yours of our blood and yours among ●he which we have knowledge of a grand-child of yours and ours called Acamapixtli We beseech you therefore to give him vs for Lord we will esteeme him as hee deserves seeing hee is of the linage of the Lords of Mexico and the Kings of Culhuacan The king having consulted vppon this poynt and finding it nothing inconvenient to be alied to the Mexicaines who were valiant men made them answer that they should take his grandchilde in good time adding therevnto that if he had beene a woman hee woulde not have given her noting the foule fact before spoken of ending his discourse with these wordes Let my grand-childe go to serve your God and be his lievetenant to rule and gov●rne his creatures by whom we live who is the Lord of night day and windes Let him goe and be Lord of the water and land and possesse the Mexicaine Nation take him in good time and vse him as my sonne and grand-child The Mexicaines gave him thanks all ioyntly desiring him to marry him with his owne hand so as he gave him to wife one of the noblest Ladies amongst them They conducted the new King and Queene with all honour possible and made him a solemne reception going all in generall foorth to see the king whom they led into pallaces which were then but meane and having seated them in royall throanes presently one of the Antients and an Orator much esteemed amongest them did rise vp speaking in this manner My sonne our Lord and King thou art welcome to this poore house and citty amongest these weedes and mudde where thy poore fathers grandfathers and kinsfolkes endure what it pleaseth the Lord of things created Remember Lord thou comm●st hither to be the defence and support of the Mexicaine Nation and to be the resemblance of our God Vitzliputzli whervpon the charge and governement is given thee Thou knowest we are not in our country seeing the land we possesse at this day is anothers neither know we what shall become of vs to morrowe or another day Consider therefore that thou commest not to rest or recreate thy selfe but rather to indure a new charge vnder so heavie a burden wherein thou must continually labour being slave to this multitude which is fallen to thy lotte and to all this neighbour people whome thou must strive to gratifie and give them contentment seeing thou knowest we live vpon their lands and within their limites And ending hee repeated these wordes Thou art welcome thou and the Queene our Mistris to this your realme This was the speech of the old man which with other orations which the Mexicaine histories do celebrate the children did vse to learne by hart and so they were kept by tradition some of them deserve well to be reported in their proper termes The king aunswering thanked them and offered them his care and diligence in their defence aide in all he could After they gave him the othe and after their mane● set the royall crown vpon his head the which is like to the Crowne of the dukes of Venice the name of Acamapixtli their first king signifies a handfull of reeds and therfore they carry in their armories a hand holding many arrows of reedes Of the strange tribute the Mexicaines paied to them of Azcapuzalco CHAP. 9. THe Mexicaines happened so well in the election of their new king that in short time they grew to have some form of a common-weale and to be famous among strangers wherevpon their neighbours moved with feare practised to subdue them especially the Tapane●ans who had Azcapuzalco for their metropolitane citty to whome the Mexicaines payed tribute as strangers dwelling in their land For the king of AzcapuZalco fearing their power which increased soght to oppresse the Mexicanes and having consulted with his subiects he sent to tel king Acamapixtli that the ordinary tribut they payed was too little and that from thencefoorth they should bring firre trees sapines and willowes for the building of the citty and moreover they shoulde make him a garden in the water planted with diverse kindes of hearbes and pulses which they should bring vnto him yearely by water dressed in this maner without failing which if they did not he declared them his enemies and would roote them out The Mexicaines were much troubled at this commaundement holding it impossible and that this demaund was to no other end but to

and then they did glut and defile themselves like to the Moores This sacrifice was most fit for them to withstand their enemies gods and although at this day a great part of these customes have ceased the wars being ended yet remaines there some relikes by reason of the private or generall quarrels of the Indians or the Caciques or in their Citties They did likewise offer and sacrifice shelles of the sea which they call Mollo and they offered them to the fountaines and springs saying that these shells were daughters of the sea the mother of all waters They gave vnto these shells sundrie names according to the color and also they vse them to divers ends They vsed them in a maner in all kinde of sacrifices and yet to this day they put beaten shells in their Chica for a superstition Finally they thought it convenient to offer sacrifices of every thing they did sow or raise vp There were Indians appointed to doe these sacrifices to the fountaine springs and rivers which passed through the townes or by their Chacras which are their farmes which they did after seede ●ime that they might not cease running but alwaies water their groundes The sorcerers did coniure to know what time the sacrifices should be made which being ended they did gather of the contribution of the people what should be sacrificed and delivered them to such as had the charge of these sacrifices They made them in the beginning of winter at such time as the fountaines springs and rivers did increase by the moistures of the weather which they did attribute to their sacrifices They did not sacrifice to the fountaines and springs of the desarts To this day continues the respect they had to fountaines springs pooles brookes or rivers which passe by their Citties or Chacras even vnto the fountaines and rivers of the desarts They have a speciall regard and reverence to the meeting of two rivers and there they wash themselves for their health anointing themselves first with the flower of Mays or some other things adding therevnto divers ceremonies the which they do likewise in their bathes Of the Sacrifices they made of men CHAP. 19. THe most pittifull disaster of this poore people is their slavery vnto the Devill sacrificing men vnto him which are the Images of God In many nations they had vsed to kill to accompany the dead as hath beene declared such persons as had been agreeable vnto him and whome they imagined might best serve him in the other world Besides this they vsed in Peru to sacrifice yong children of foure or six yeares old vnto tenne and the greatest parte of these sacrifices were for the affaires that did import the Ingua as in sickenes for his health and when he went to the warres for victory or when they gave the wreathe to their new Ingua which is the marke of a King as heere the Scepter and the Crowne be In this solemnitie they sacrificed the number of two hundred children from foure to ten yeares of age which was a cruell and inhumane spectacle The manner of the sacrifice was to drowne them and bury them with certaine representations and ceremonies sometimes they cutte off their heads annointing themselves with the blood from one eare to an other They did likewise sacrifice Virgines some of them that were brought to the Ingua from the monasteries as hath beene saide In this case there was a very great and generall abuse If any Indian qualified or of the common sorte were sicke and that the Divine tolde him confidently that he should die they did then sacrifice his owne sonne to the Sunne or to Virachoca desiring them to be satisfied with him and that they would not deprive the father of life This cruelty is like to that the holy Scripture speakes of which king Moab vsed in sacrificing his first borne sonne vpon the wall in the sight of all Israel to whome this act seemed so mournfull as they would not presse him any further but returned to their houses The holy Scripture also shewes that the like kinde of sacrifice had beene in vse amongst the barbarous nations of the Cananeans and Iebuseans and others whereof the booke of Wisedome speakes They call it peace to live in so great miseries and vexations as to sacrifice their owne children or to doe other hidden sacrifices as to watch whole nights doing the actes of fooles and so they keepe no cleanenesse in their life nor in their marriages but one through envy takes away the life of an other an other takes away his wife and his contentment and all is in confusion blood murther theft deceipt corruption infidelitie seditions periuries mutinies forgetfulnesse of God pollution of soules change of sexes and birth inconstancie of marriages and the disorder of adultery and filthinesse for idolatry is the sincke of all miseries The Wise man speaketh this of those people of whome David complaines that the people of Israel had learned those customes even to sacrifice their sonnes and daughters to the divell the which was never pleasing nor agreeable vnto God For as hee is the Authour of life and hath made all these things for the commoditie and good of man so is hee not pleased that men should take the lives one from another although the Lord did approove and accept the willingnesse of the faithfull patriarke Abraham yet did hee not consent to the deede which was to cut off the head of his sonne wherein wee see the malice and tyranny of the divell who would be herein as God taking pleasure to be worshipt with the effusion of mans blood procuring by this meanes the ruine of soule and body together for the deadly hatred he beareth to man as his cruell enemy Of the horrible sacrifices of men which the Mexicaines vsed CHAP. 20. ALthough they of Peru have surpassed the Mexicaines in the slaughter and sacrifice of their children for I have not read nor vnderstood that the Mexicaines vsed any such sacrifices yet they of Mexico have exceeded them yea all the nations of the worlde in the great number of men which they had sacrificed and in the horrible maner thereof And to the end we may see the great miserie wherein the Divell holdes this blind Nation I will relate particularly the custome and inhumane maner which they have observed First the men they did sacrifice were taken in the warres neyther did they vse these solemne sacrifices but of Captives so as it seemes therein they have followed the custome of the Ancients For as some Authors say they called the sacrifice Victima for this reason because it was of a conquered thing they also called it Hostia quasi ab hoste for that it was an offering made of their enemies although they have applied this word to all kindes of sacrifices In truth the Mexicaines did not sacrifice any to their idolls but Captives and the ordinarie warres they made was onely to have Captives for their sacrifices and therefore when they

citty of Mexico there were above three hundred Mango Ingua Yupangu● amongst the Kings of Cusco was hee that most augmented the service of their idolls inventing a thousand kindes of sacrifices feasts and ceremonies The like did King Iscoalt in Mexico who was the fourth king There was also a great number of superstitions and sacrifices in other Nations of the Indians as in the Province of Guatimala at the Ilands in the new Kingdome in the Province of Chille and others that were like Common-wealthes and Comminalties But it was nothing 〈◊〉 respect of Mexico and Cusco where Sathan was in ●ome or in his Ierusalem vntill he was cast out against his will and the holy Crosse planted in his place and the Kingdome of Christ our God occupied the which the tyrant did vsurpe Of some Feast celebrated by them of Cusco and how the Divell would imitate the mysterie of the holy Trinitie CHAP. 28. TO conclude that which concernes Religion there restes something to speake of the feasts and solemnities which the Indians did celebrate the which for that they are divers and many cannot be all specified The Ingnas Lords of Peru had two kindes of feasts some were ordinarie which fell out in certaine moneths of the yeere and others extraordinary which were for certaine causes of importance as when they did crowne a new King when they beganne some warre of importance when they had any great neede of water or drought or other like things For the ordinary feasts we must vnderstand that every moneth of the yeare they made feasts and divers sacrifices and although all of them had this alike that they offered a hundred sheepe yet in colour and in forme they are very divers In the first moneth which they call Rayme which is the moneth of December they made their first feast which was the principall of all others and for that cause they called it Capacrayme which is to say a rich and principall feast In this feast they offered a great number of sheepe and lambs in sacrifice and they burnt them with sweete wood then they caused gold and silver to be brought vpon certaine sheepe setting vppon them three Images of the Sun and three of the thunder the father the sonne and the brother In these feasts they dedicated the Inguas children putting the Guaras or ensignes vpon them and they pierced their eares then some olde man did whip them with slings and annoynted their faces with blood all in signe that they should be true Knights to the Ingua No stranger might remaine in Cusco during this moneth and this feast but at the end thereof they entred and they gave vnto them peeces of the paste of mays with the blood of the sacrifice which they did eate in signe of confederation with the Ingua as hath bin said before It is strange that the Divell after his manner hath brought a trinitie into idolatry for the three images of the Sunne called Apomti Churunti and Intiquaoqui which signifieth father and lord Sunne the sonne Sunne and the brother Sunne In the like maner they named the three Images of Chuquilla which is the God that rules in the region of the aire where it thunders raines and snows I remember that being in Cuquisaca an honourable priest shewed me an information which I had long in my handes where it was prooved that there was a certaine Guaca or Oratory whereas the Indians did worship an idoll called Tangatanga which they saide was one in three and three in one And as this Priest stood amazed the reat I saide that the Divell by his infernall and obstinate pride whereby he alwayes pretendes to make himselfe God did steale all that he could from the trueth to imploy it in his lyings and deceits Comming then to the feast of the second moneth which they called Camey besides the sacrifices which they made they did cast the ashes into the river following five or sixe leagues after praying it to carry them into the sea for that the Virochoca should there receive this present In the third fourth and fift moneth they offered a hundred blacke sheepe speckled and grey with many other things which I omitte for being too tedious The ●ixt moneth is called Hat●●cuZ qui Aymorey which answereth to Maie in the which they sacrificed a hundred sheepe more of all colours in this moone and moneth which is when they bring Maie from the fieldes into the house they made a feast which is yet very vsuall among the Indians and they doe call it Aymorey This feast is made comming from the Chacra or farme vnto the house saying certaine songs and praying that the Mays may long continue the which they call Mamacora They take a certaine portion of the most fruitefull of the Mays that growes in their farmes the which they put in a certaine grenier which they doe call Pirua with certaine ceremonies watching three nightes they put this Mays in the richest garments they have and beeing thus wrapped and dressed they worship this Pirua and hold it in great veneration saying it is the mother of the mays of their inheritances and that by this means the mays augments is preserved In this moneth they make a particular sacrifice and the witches demaund of this Pirua if it hath strength sufficient to continue vntill the next yeare and if it answers no then they carry this Mays to the farme to burne whence they brought it according to every mans power then make they another Pirua with the same ceremonies saying that they renue it to the end the seede of Mays may not perish and if it answers that it hath force sufficient to last longer they leave it vntill the next yeare This foolish vanitie continueth to this day and it is very common amongest the Indians to have these Piruas to make the feast of Aymorey The seaventh moneth answereth to Iune and is called A●caycuZ qui Intiraymi in it they made the feast that is called Intiraymi in the which they sacrificed a hundred sheepe called Guanacos and saide it was the feast of the Sunne In this moneth they made many Images of Quinua wood carved all attired with rich garmentes and they made their dancings which they do call Cayo At this feast they cast flowers in the high wayes and thither the Indians came painted and their noblemen had small plates of golde vpon their beards and all did sing wee must vnderstand that this feast falleth almost at the same time whenas the Christians observe the solempnitie of the holy Sacrament which doth resemble it in some sort as in dauncing singing and representations And for this cause there hath beene and is yet among the Indians which celebrated a feast somewhat like to ours of the holy Sacrament many superstitions in celebrating this ancient feast of Inti●aymi The eight month is called Chahua Huarqui in the which they did burne a hundred sheepe more all grey of the colour of Viscacha according to the former order which

last Successours Inguas CHAP. 23. THe rest of this subiect is handled at large by the Spanish Writers in the histories of the Indies and for that it is not my purpose I will speake only of the succession of the Inguas Atahulpa being dead in Xaxamalca and Guascar in Cusco and Francis Pizarre with his people having seised on the realme Mangocapa sonne to Guaynacapa besieged them in Cusco very straightly but in the end he abandoned the whole Countrey and retired himselfe to Vilca Bamba where he kept himselfe in the mountaines by reason of the rough and difficult accesse and there the successors Inguas remained vntill Amaro who was taken and executed in the market place of Cusco to the Indians incredible griefe and sorrow seeing iustice doone vpon him publiquely whome they helde for their Lorde After which time they imprisoned others of the linage of these Inguas I have knowne Don Charles grand-childe to Guaynacapa and son to Polo who was baptized and alwayes favoured the Spaniards against Mangocapa his brother when the Marquise of Canette governed in this Countrey Sarritopaingua went from Vilcabamba and came vpon assurance to the citty of Kings where there was given to him the valley of Yucay and other things to whom succeeded a daughter of his Beholde the succession which is knowne at this day of that great and rich familie of the Inguas whose raigne continued above three hundred yeeres wherein they reckon eleaven successors vntill it was wholy extinguished In the other linage of Vrincusco which as we have said before had his beginning likewise from the first Mangocapa they reckon eight successors in this sort To Mangocapa succeeded Cinchoraca to him Capac Yupangui to him Lluqui Yupangui to him Maytacapaest Tarcogumam vnto whome succeeded his sonne whome they name not to this son succeeded Don Iean Tambo Maytapanaça This sufficeth for the originall and succession of the Inguas that governed the land of Peru with that that I have spoken of their Lawes Governement and manner of life Of the manner of the Mexicaines common-weale CHAP. 24. ALthough you may see by the historie which shal be written of the kingdome succession beginning of the Mexicaines their maner of commonweale and governement yet will I speake briefly what I shall thinke fitte in generall to be most observed Whereof I will discourse more amply in the historie The first point whereby we may iudge the Mexicaine governement to be very politike is the order they had and kept inviolable in the election of their king for since their first called Acamapach vnto their last which was Moteçuma the second of that name there came none to the crowne by right of succession but by a lawfull nomination and election This election in the beginning was by the voyce of the commons although the chiefe men managed it Since in the time of Iscoalt the fourth king by the advise and order of a wise and valiant man called Tlacael there were foure certayne Electours appoynted which with two lordes or kings subiect to the Mexicaine the one of Tescuco and the other of Tucuba had power to make this election They did commonly choose yoongmen for their kings because they went alwayes to the warres and this was in a manner the chiefe cause why they desired them so They had a speciall regard that they shoulde be fit for the warres and take delight and glory therein After the election they made twoo kindes of feasts the one in taking possession of the royall estate for the which they went to the Temple making great ceremonies and sacrifices vppon the harth called Divine where there was a continuall fire before the Altare of the idoll and after some Rhethoritians practised therein made many Orations and Speeches The other feast and the most solempne was at his coronation for the which he must first overcome in battell and bring a certaine number of captives which they must sacrifice to their gods he entred in triumph with great pompe making him a solempne reception aswell they of the Temple who went all in procession sounding on sundry sortes of instruments giving incense and singing like Secular men as also the Courtiers who came forth with their devises to receive the victorious king The Crowne or royall ensigne was before like to a Myter and behinde it was cut so as it was not round for the fore parte was higher and did rise like a poynt The king of Tescuco had the privilege to crown the king of Mexico The Mexicaines have beene very duetifull and loyall vnto their kings and it hath not beene knowne that they have practised any treason against them onely their Histories report that they sought to poison their king called Ticocic being a coward and of small account but it is not found that there hath beene any dissentions or partialities amongest them for ambition thogh it be an ordinary thing in Comminalties but contrariwise they reporte as you shall see heereafter that a man the best of the Mexicaines refused this realme seeming vnto him to be very expedient for the Common-weale to have an other king In the beginning when the Mexicaines were but poore and weake the kings were very moderate in their expenses and in their Court but as they increased in power they increased likewise in pompe and state vntill they came to the greatnesse of Moteçuma who if hee had had no other thing but his house of beasts and birds it had beene a prowde thing the like whereof hath not beene seene for there was in this house all sortes of fish birds of Xacamamas and beasts as in an other Noahs Arke for sea fish there were pooles of salt-water and for river fish lakes of fresh-water birds that do prey were fedde and likewise wilde beasts in great aboundaunce there were very many Indians imployed for the keeping of these beasts and when he found an impossibilitie to nourish any sort of fish fowle or wilde beast hee caused the image or likenesse to be made richly cutte in pretious stones silver or golde in marble or in stone and for all sortes of entertainements hee had his severall houses and pallaces some of pleasure others of sorrowe and mourning and others to treate of the affairs of the realme There was in this pallace many chambers according to the qualitie of noble men that served him with a strange order and distinction Of the titles and dignities the Indians vsed CHAP. 25. THe Mexicaines have beene very curious to divide the degrees and dignities amongst the Noble men and Lords that they might distinguish them to whom they were to give the greatest honour The dignity of these foure Electors was the greatest and most honourable next to the king and they were chosen presently after the kings election They were commonly brothers or very neare kinsmen to the king and were called Tlacohecalcalt which signifies prince of darts the which they cast being a kind of armes they vse much The next dignitie to this