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Title: The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914
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Publisher: New York, Hispanic Society of America
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Guayna Capac, which gathering was madein the very city of Cuzco by Cristobal de Molina, curate ofthe parish of Our Lady of Remedios of the hospital of thenatives; by. command of the Bishop D. Sebastian de Lar-taum.^ Cobo claims that the results of that investigationagree with those of Polo de Ondegardo and the ViceroyToledo, which he states to have had and consulted. What Ihave been able to see of them does not, as stated before,contain any direct allusions to Titicaca, but there are otherswhich I do not know.^^ Gatherings of Indians with theview of ascertaining ancient lore are not always successful.The Indian dislikes to communicate on such subjects inthe presence of witnesses from his own race. The deep and rapid impression made by biblical tales onthe mind of the Indians, through teachings of the CatholicChurch, is perceivable in some of the traditions reported > O rt 1—1 • r-t -M t)0 1—1 •r X! o XI sS M o iJ 1—1 H =»-! H o -< CM CO 0) cc o i=l o -t-1 03 OS c« bi
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ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONS 315 by Molina, as, for instance, in the story of the Deluge, whichearlier chroniclers do not mention, but would surely havealluded to, had they heard of it. Otherwise the tales re-corded by Molina agree in substance with those preservedby his predecessors in that the heavenly bodies are repre-sented as having been created on or about the Island of Titi-caca, and the Inca to have gone from that Island to Cuzco.As stated before, no close agreement between the texts oftraditions obtained by distinct parties, or at distinctlocalities, can be expected, hence divergence in details doesnot impair the value of substantial resemblance. Gamboas work is, from its nature and origin, a second-hand compendium. It is, furthermore, not an impartialdocument. Its tendency is clearly shown in the beginning,where he declares his object to be **to disabuse all those inthe world who think that the said Ingas were legitimatekings and the curacas natural lords of this land. Th

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