Columns of the Sun 222 Hymns 223 Religious dances 224 The four great festivals 225 Chasing the evil spirit 227 Occasional and minor festivals 229 Eclipses 230 Sorcerers and priests 230 Moral significance of the Peruvian religion 232 Communion, baptism and sacerdotal confession 233 Various ideas as to the future life 235 Supay, the god of the departed 237 Conversion of the Peruvians 239 Are the origins of the American civilizations to be sought in the Old World? 241 Real significance and importance of analogies observed 243 Sacrifice 245 Three stages of religious faith: animistic nature-worship, anthropomorphic polytheism and spiritual monotheism 246 The genesis of the temple 249 Primitive independence and subsequent mutual interpenetration of religion and morals 250 Human nature invincibly religious 252 The guiding principle 254 Farewell 255 ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. P. 16, _note_, under _Acosta_, add, "E[dward] G[rimstone]'s translation was edited, with notes, for the Hakluyt Society, by Clements R. Markham, in 1880." P. 17, _note_, lines 4 and 5, to "English translation" add "in epitome." " lines 8 and 9, for "Ixtilxochitl" read "Ixtlilxochitl." " line 7 from below, for "note" read "notes." P. 32, line 10 from below, for "bases" read "basis." P. 34, line 1, for "lama" read "llama." P. 35, last line, insert "and" after "America." P. 77, _note_, last line, for "caps." read "capp." P. 92, line 9 from below, omit "to" before "which." P. 113, _note_, last line, for "Chichemeca" read "Chichimeca." P. 129, line 3, for "East to West" read "West to East." P. 224, _note_, for "_Rivero y Tschudi_, l.c." read "_Rivero y Tschudi_: Antigüedades Peruanas: Viena, 1851." N. B. An English translation of this work by F. L. Hawks appeared at New York in 1853. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION.--CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. COMMON BASES OF CIVILIZATION AND RELIGION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,