Identifier: islandsoftiticac00band (find matches)
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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nce the stories which he repeats havenot the merit of the results of serious investigation likethose of Betanzos and even of Cieza. Garcilasso acknowledges also other sources of informa-tion. The writings of Father Bias Valera, partly destroyedat the sacking of Cadiz by the English in 1596, are quoted byhim repeatedly. Valera was a native of Chachapoyas innortheastern Peru and received in the Jesuit order at Limain 1568, whence he went to Cuzco three years later, so that,the date of his birth being 1551, he must have begun, likeGarcilasso, his investigations about the Indians at quite anearly age.^^ This, the fewer opportunities he may havehad for cultivating intimacy with the aborigines, and hisearly death in Spain, lessens the value of Father Valerasdata. Nevertheless it should not be overlooked that he ar-rived at Cuzco at a time when special investigations werebeing carried on there on the subject of Indian historical a> XI P4 X o M o (^ =1-1 o w a> © -^ H
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ABORIGINAL MYTHb AND TRADITIONS 311 lore, both by order of the Viceroy Don Francisco de Toledoand, separately, by instructions of the Bishop of Cuzco,then Sebastian de Artaun or Lartaun.^^ Through the former, no information relative to TiticacaIsland was revealed as far as known. Neither is there anymention of the Island in the investigation reported upon bythe Licentiate Polo de Ondegardo in the same year of 1571.The latter merely alludes, in terms very brief, to somestories according to which Cuzco had been originally settledfrom other parts, but he adds: This is of small impor-tance, because they say it happened before the Deluge, andthey connect it with certain fables that, being very old, itis not necessary to dwell upon.^^ I would add, that theDeluge appears first almost simultaneously in the writ-ings of Cristoval de Molina, of which I am now to treat.^^ The result of the clerical investigation was reported uponby a secular priest, Father Cristoval de Molina, who residedat Cuzc

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