Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas by Cristobel de Molina

Author:Cristobel de Molina [Molina, Cristobel de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780292748446
Published: 2012-01-10T19:53:24+00:00

To perform this festival, they would bring to the plaza all the mentioned huacas and the bodies of the deceased Inca kings and queens to drink with them, placing those who had been lords of

[H]anan Cuzco within that group and those of Hurin Cuzco within their group. Th

ey brought food and drink to the dead as if they were alive, saying: “When you were alive, you used to eat and drink this.

[May] your soul receive and eat it now, wherever [your soul] may be.”177 [Th

ey said this] because they believed, and were very sure, that the souls did not die and that those of good [people] went to rest with the Creator. Th

at was what they said when they died, en-

trusting their relatives, their households, and families. [Th ey] said

that if the [living] performed and fulfi lled what the [deceased]

request[ed], they would see them again from heaven. Th ey [also]

believed that there was a hell for evil [people] and that there the demons, which they call cupay [demon], tormented them. Th ey

said that those who went to hell suff ered great hunger and thirst, and that the foods they ate and drank were coal, snakes, toads, and other foods of this type. Th

ose who went to heaven would eat and

drink with great splendor the very fi ne foods that the Creator had arranged for them. Also, they would receive the foods and drinks that were burned for them here [on earth].178

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