The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ?^::^m^: ^ ^ ^ ta £. Oi ^ 0) 1^ M- N E tK CO o fU ^73 M X H^ E > fi ^ ^ o p< c3. ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONS 301 the arrival of Pizarro and sixteen after his occupation ofCuzco, they might be primitive lore of considerable authen-ticity and purity. The first and second chapter, also the greatest portionof the third, of Ciezas Second Part of the Chronicle ofPeru, are unfortunately missing. In Chapter IV he states:Many times have I asked the inhabitants of these prov-inces what they knew about what there was in them beforethe Incas ruled
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ?^::^m^: ^ ^ ^ ta £. Oi ^ 0) 1^ M- N E tK CO o fU ^73 M X H^ E > fi ^ ^ o p< c3. ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONS 301 the arrival of Pizarro and sixteen after his occupation ofCuzco, they might be primitive lore of considerable authen-ticity and purity. The first and second chapter, also the greatest portionof the third, of Ciezas Second Part of the Chronicle ofPeru, are unfortunately missing. In Chapter IV he states:Many times have I asked the inhabitants of these prov-inces what they knew about what there was in them beforethe Incas ruled over them . .^s Cieza had a compara-tively short time for his investigations, and was dependentupon interpreters, still what he ascertained in this mannerconcerning Titicaca lore corresponds in the main with whatis stated by Betanzos. He says: Before the Incas ruled inthese kingdoms and were known in them, the Indians tellanother much more important thing than all the rest, forthey affirm that for a long time they were without seeing thesun, and that suffering a great deal on that account, theyprayed and made vows to those on
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