The History of the Incas

by Sarmiento De Gamboa, Pedro; Bauer, Brian S.; Smith, Vania; Decoster, Jean-Jacques

• ISBN13: 9780292714854
• ISBN10: 0292714858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards. The royal sponsorship of the work guaranteed Sarmiento direct access to the highest Spanish officials in Cuzco. It allowed him to summon influential Incas, especially those who had witnessed the fall of the Empire. Sarmiento also travelled widely and interviewed numerous local lords (curacas), as well as surviving members of the royal Inca families. Once completed, in an unprecedented effort to establish the authenticity of the work, Sarmiento's manuscript was read, chapter by chapter, to forty-two indigenous authorities for commentary and correction.The scholars behind this new edition (the first to be published in English since 1907) went to similarly great lengths in pursuit of accuracy. Translators Brian Bauer and Vania Smith used an early transcript and, in some instances, the original document to create the text. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster's introduction lays bare the biases Sarmiento incorporated into his writing. It also theorizes what sources, in addition to his extensive interviews, Sarmiento relied upon to produce his history. Finally, more than sixty new illustrations enliven this historically invaluable document of life in the ancient Andes.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas

Second Part of the General History Called Indica Translated And Edited

Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain

Division of the history

The origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions

The fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account

Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions

First settlers of the Cuzco Valley

How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes

The origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco

The route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history

The entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there

The disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields

The life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins

The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca

The life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca

The life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca

The life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca

The life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac

What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa

How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive

Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father

The life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca

The provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized

The life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca

The Chancas attack Cuzco

The second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas

Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon

The nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos

The other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered

The Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom

Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor

Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains

Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu

The death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui

The life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca

Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes

Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas

Topa Inca makes the yanayacos

Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things

Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco

The death of Topa Inca Yupanqui

The life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca

They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca

The first things that Huayna Capac did af

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