The History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Author:Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa [Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2007-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 40.1. The site of Ollantaytambo. (Photograph by Max. T. Vargus, ca. 1900, private collection.)

Thus most of the Collas were defeated, killed, or imprisoned, and the Cuzcos pursued those who fled as far as a town called Lampa. There Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui treated his wounded and re-formed the squadrons and ordered his two sons Topa Ayar Manco and Apu Paucar Usnoto press ahead conquering as far as the Chichas. They were to place his boundary markers there and to turn back. From there he returned to Cuzco to celebrate the victory won.

The Inca arrived in Cuzco, where he celebrated and held festivities for the victory. He found that a son had been born to him, and thus he took him before the Sun and offered him to him and gave him the name of Topa Inca Yupanqui.200 He offered many treasures of silver and gold to the Sun and to the other oracles and huacas in his name, and he also held the capac cocha sacrifice. In addition to this, he held the most solemn and costly festivities that had ever been held throughout the land, because Inca Yupanqui wanted Topa Inca to succeed him, even though he had other older and legitimate sons by his wife and sister, Mama Anaguarqui. Because even though the custom of these tyrants was that the first and eldest legitimate son inherited the state, they seldom observed it. Instead, they would usually select the one they loved the most or the one whose mother they loved the most or the one among the brothers who was the most capable of ruling, and he received everything.

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