The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2Cieza de León, Pedro de
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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2
Cieza de León, Pedro de
Incas; Peru -- History -- To 1548
[75] Balboa says that four brothers and four sisters came out of
Pacarec Tampu or Tampu Toco, named Manco Capac, Ayar Cacha, Ayar Auca,
and Ayar Uchi; the women being Mama Guaca, Mama Cora, Mama Ocllo, Mama
Arahua. Montesinos gives the names as--Ayar Manco Tupac, Ayar Uchu
Tupac, Aya Sauca Tupac, and Ayar Cachi Tupac, and the women Mama Cora,
Hipa Huacum, Mama Huacum, Pilco Huacum. Garcilasso de la Vega also
says that there were four brothers and four sisters, namely, Manco
Capac, Ayar Cachi, Ayar Uchu, Ayar Sauca, but he only gives the name
of one of the women, Mama Ocllo, wife of Manco Capac. Juan de Betanzos
gives the names in pairs, in the order in which they came out of the
mysterious cave, namely, Ayarcache and Mamaguaco, Ayaroche and Cora,
Ayarauca and Raguaocllo, Ayarmango and Mama Ocllo.
Fray Martin de Morua, in his _Historia del Origen y Genealogia de
los Incas_, a work written in 1590, but still inedited, gives the
following names of those who came out of Tambo Toco or Pacaric Tombo.
The eldest, Guanacauri; the second, Cuzco Huanca; the third, Mango
Capac; and the fourth, Tupa Ayar Cache. Of the women, the first was
Tupa Uaco; the second, Mama Coya: the third, Curi Ocllo; and the
fourth, Ipa Huaco. Before reaching Cuzco they stopped at a place then
called Apitay, and now Guanacauri. The third sister, Curi Ocllo, who
was considered most intelligent by the rest, was then sent forward to
seek for the best situation for a settlement. Coming to the site of
Cuzco, then inhabited by Lares, Poques, and Huallas, a low and poor
race, before she arrived there she met one of the Poques. She killed
him with a weapon called _raucana_; cut out his lungs; and, with them
in her mouth, all bloody, she entered the settlements. The people were
frightened at the sight of her, thinking that she fed on men, and
they left their houses and fled. Seeing that the place seemed good
for a settlement, and that the people were tame, she returned to her
brothers and sisters, and brought them all there except the eldest. He
preferred to stay at Apitay, where he died, and in memory of him they
call that place and hill Guanacauri. The rest were received without
opposition, and they named the second brother to be the chief of the
town, for which reason the place was called Cuzco, for before its name
was Acamama. He died in the Curicancha, and was succeeded by the third
brother, named the great Manco Capac.
[76] _Ancha_, the superlative; _Hatun_, “great”; _Apu_, “a chief”;
_Intip_, genitive of _Ynti_, “the sun”; _Churi_, “a son”.
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