Hakluytus Posthumus 15
Hakluytus Posthumus 15
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in order, and in such distance the one from the other, as everie moneth one of these Pillars did note the rising and setting of the Sunne. They called them Succanga, by meanes whereof they taught and shewed, the Feasts, and the seasons fit to sowe and reape, and to doe other things. They did certaine sacrifices to these Pillars of the Sunne. Every moneth had his proper name, and 370 JOSEPH ACOSTA a.d.
c. 1588.
peculiar Feasts. They began the yeare by Januarie as we doe. But since, a King Ingua ...called Pachacuto, which signifies a reformer of tne Temple, began their yeare by December, by reason (as I conjecture) that then the Sunne retumeth from the last point of Capricorne, which is the tropike neerest unto them. I know not whether the one or the other have observed any Bisexte, although some hold the contrarie. The weekes which the Mexicans did reckon, were not properly weekes, being not of seven daies: the Inguas likewise made no mention thereof which is no wonder, seeing the coxmt of the weeke is not groxmded upon the course of the Sunne, as that of the yeare, nor of the Moone, as that of the moneth; but among the Hebrewes it is grounded upon the creation of the world, as Moyses reporteth ; and amongst the Greekes and Latins upon the number of the seven Planets, of whose names the daies of the weeke have taken their denomination; yet was it much for those Indians, being men without bookes and learning, to have a yeare, seasons, and feasts, so well appointed as I have said.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
in order, and in such distance the one from the other, as everie moneth one of these Pillars did note the rising and setting of the Sunne. They called them Succanga, by meanes whereof they taught and shewed, the Feasts, and the seasons fit to sowe and reape, and to doe other things. They did certaine sacrifices to these Pillars of the Sunne. Every moneth had his proper name, and 370 JOSEPH ACOSTA a.d.
c. 1588.
peculiar Feasts. They began the yeare by Januarie as we doe. But since, a King Ingua ...called Pachacuto, which signifies a reformer of tne Temple, began their yeare by December, by reason (as I conjecture) that then the Sunne retumeth from the last point of Capricorne, which is the tropike neerest unto them. I know not whether the one or the other have observed any Bisexte, although some hold the contrarie. The weekes which the Mexicans did reckon, were not properly weekes, being not of seven daies: the Inguas likewise made no mention thereof which is no wonder, seeing the coxmt of the weeke is not groxmded upon the course of the Sunne, as that of the yeare, nor of the Moone, as that of the moneth; but among the Hebrewes it is grounded upon the creation of the world, as Moyses reporteth ; and amongst the Greekes and Latins upon the number of the seven Planets, of whose names the daies of the weeke have taken their denomination; yet was it much for those Indians, being men without bookes and learning, to have a yeare, seasons, and feasts, so well appointed as I have said.
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