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Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third
Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the
religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by
Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of
Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city.
Molina was an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced
language skills allowed him to interview the older indigenous men
of Cuzco who were among the last surviving eyewitnesses of the
rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule. Thus, Molina's
account preserves a crucial first-hand record of Inca religious
beliefs and practices. This volume is the first English translation
of Molina's Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los incas since
1873 and includes the first authoritative scholarly commentary and
notes. The work opens with several Inca creation myths and
descriptions of the major gods and shrines (huacas). Molina then
discusses the most important rituals that occurred in Cuzco during
each month of the year, as well as rituals that were not tied to
the ceremonial calendar, such as birth rituals, female initiation
rites, and marriages. Molina also describes the Capacocha ritual,
in which all the shrines of the empire were offered sacrifices, as
well as the Taqui Ongoy, a millennial movement that spread across
the Andes during the late 1560s in response to growing Spanish
domination and accelerated violence against the so-called
idolatrous religions of the Andean peoples.
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